I AM researching a Channel Four documentary into the plight of prisoners of war during the First World War.
I urgently wish to contact any surviving British prisoners of war from the 1914-18 period. Were you captured on the Western Front during the war?
Do you know of anyone still alive who was made a POW?
I am also looking for moving stories from the immediate families of POWs, particularly from wives or children of POWs who can recall the anxiety of not knowing whether a member of the family was dead or alive.
Stories of the long-term affects of life in a camp, particularly those on prisoners forced to work down coal or salt mines.
How did the POWs react to captivity? What did they look like on their return?
Photographs taken within the camps in Germany are also of great interest.
If you can help please write to me.
Richard Johnson,
10 The Mount,
Christchurch Road,
Reading,
RG1 5HL.
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