1763 Pte. Alfred Burns British Army 57th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps from:Sparkhill, Birmingham (d.6th Oct 1918) My Uncle, Alfred Burns, entered the War in France on 18th July 1915. He was taken Prisoner of War at Messines on 10th April 1918. He was initially held at the Friedrichsfeld Lager P.O.W camp and then transferred to the Kraushaar Remischule at Charleville where he died on the 6th October 1918 after contracting dysentary. He was buried in the camp cemetery at Charleville and on 11th December 1962 Alfred was re-buried at the Terlincthun British War Cemetery near Calais.
My Father told me that his Mother received a letter from a German Doctor praising Alfred for his efforts at the P.O.W camp ,treating wounded German and British troops.
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