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2nd Lt. George Allan Sutcliffe
British Army 8th (Lonsdale) Btn. Border Regiment
from:Edinburgh
George Sutcliffe joined the Border Regiment in late 1917/early 1918 (after 2 years fighting in East Africa). He joined the 8th Btn, B Coy on 4th of May 1918, and spent much of May training and getting ready to go into the line, NE of Reims. He wrote home on 26th of May saying 'ready to move out'.
On 27th of May 1918, German troops overran the trenches to the north and quickly moved south, smothering his battalion. George was reported missing on 29th of May (all this from the Border Regimental Diary) and he was reported (in the Red Cross files) as being captured on 27th of May 1918, then sent via Karlsruhe to Schweidnitz internment camp in Silesia (now Swidniza in Poland). He was repatriated in 1919.

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