PoW’s card home resurfaces
Charles Jeffries sent the card from a camp in Limburg an der Lahn on April 30, 1918 to let his family in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, know that he had been taken prisoner.
His granddaughter Pat Nicholls, 78, of Shepreth, Cambridgeshire, had the card in a file of family memorabilia and has revealed it to local historians in her village.
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Hide AdThe card is printed in a mixture of German and English and headed: “I am a prisoner of war in Germany.” It has been stamped in German. Mrs Nicholls is now trying to find out more about the part her grandfather – who was born in 1890 and died in 1953 – played in the conflict.