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1st/5th Battalion Gordon Highlanders
 

Pte. Fred M. Kindness No. 3040

Fred Kindness POW card

Pte Frederick Mitchell Kindness was born in New Deer in 1896, the son of a farm servant.

On 26th March 1916 he was reported as 'Missing believed killed'. It took several months to establish that he was a prisoner of war.  In October 1916 he sent this acknowledgement from Schneidemuhl near Posen in Silesia (later part of Poland).

 

See also cards for Anderson and Crawford. Also War Diary entry for Missing (March 1916)


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