220905 Pte. Louis Cartz British Army 2nd Btn. Z Company Suffolk Regiment from:Bethnal Green, London My grandpa, Louis Cartz joined up in 1914 as Private 5635 with the London Rifles but was pulled out by his parents as he was only 15.
He then rejoined not sure which regiment but definitely by 1917 he was with Z company, 2nd Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. He was also in the process joining the Tank. I checked with the Red Cross records and found he was transferred
from a German military hospital to POW camp Limburg an Lahn on 24/05/1918.
He came back to London in 1919 and had a scroll and letter from King George the Fifth.
Grandpa considered himself lucky and had a cheerful nature.
He told me that he got tangled German field station. There was
morphine and they got him drunk and put a piece of wood in his mouth and sawed his left leg off as gangrene was setting in. Then to a military hospital where he was popular as could speak German and translated papers,letters etc.
He took his disability in his stride and tried to make the best of his life.
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