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2nd Bn, Wiltshire Regiment - A sepia photograph of captured Officers performing in a play called 'The Pigeon' in Schweidnitz Prisoner of War camp in Germany during the 1st World War. ( (Left) Lieutenant Luells (Dorset Regiment), In the main group exact location not sure, Captain Wagstaff (Bedfordshire Regiment), Captain Barchard (Royal Welch Fusiliers), Engineer Broughton MM, Captain Clarke MM, Captain Humphreys (Army Service Corps), Lieutenant Carter Read (Rifle Brigade), Captain Jervis, Captain Bittleston (Suffolk Regiment), Lieutenant Blenkinson (Manchester Regiment). [This image is in an album compiled we believe by Lieutenant Dehn of the Wiltshire Regiment a POW in the camp).

Persons(s): Luells, Lieutenant; Wagstaff, Captain; Barchard, Captain; Broughton, Lieutenant; Clarke, Captain; Humphreys, Captain; Carter-Read, Lieutenant; Jervis, Captain; Bittleston, Captain; Blenkinson, Lieutenant

Wiltshire Regiment, 2nd Bn