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DOUGLAS (Capt. J. Harvey) Captured: Sixteen Months As A Prisoner of War. 1st Ed., 195pp., portrait frontis., 17 photo. plates, aerial photo. of Sanctuary Wood trenches to front ep., reproduction of Feldpostkarte & other documents to rear ep. VG in dw. NY: Doran. 1918  #67448
[HLMainPic] Douglas was serving with "A" Coy., 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles, holding trenches (dismounted) around Observatory Ridge & Armagh Wood, south of the Menin Road when captured on 2nd June 1916 during a German attack at Sanctuary Wood when the front line trenches were lost. He was at Lazarett VI at Cologne, &c., had one arm removed & was repatriated to Canada via Swirzerland in 1917. Orig. brown cloth, gilt & black, VG in attractive illustrated dw, with label of the Watab Pulp & Paper Co. Lib. at Sartell, Minnesota. See illustrations on our website.   £165

     




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