249677 Pte. Sidney Harold Brailey British Army 6th Battalion Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment from:Yeovil, Somerset My father,Harold Brailey, enlisted at Ashford in 1915, in the 6th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment.
In October or November 1917 he was defending a hill overlooking the Schelt Canal near Cambrai, where tanks were first used. When the Germans counterattacked he was shot in the leg and taken prisoner. He had mentioned being in a place called Dulmen but his letters came from Friedrichsfelt, so perhaps he was at the former place only temporarily. He was very dependent on food parcels and 4kg loaves of bread from the Red Cross.
He returned home in January 1919. Although the German soldiers were also short of food, he said that their Red Cross parcels were always delivered complete and untouched.
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