Title

This box saved my life

Creator

Arthur Hade

Description

1 Glass covered box containing: - 3 WWI medals - 1 International Football League Winners medal (British Team) - 1 Cigarette box and three bullets. After the war Arthur Hade was released and became a prison warden. He trained as a carpenter, made coffins and worked for Pierpoint. The cigarette box saved his life at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle on the 26th of October 1914. He was captured as a Prisoner of War in Neuve Chapeele and held at the Prisoner of war camp in Alten Grabow.

Date

26-10-1914

Source

Europeana 1914-1918

Contributor

Eileen Geoghegan