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World War I - Prisoner of War Diary. A historically important archive of Brigadier General James Keith Dick-Cunyngham, CB, CMG, DSO, (1877-1935) 51st Highland Division, including his personal diary kept as a prisoner of war in Germany, written in pencil and starting with a description of his capture in April 1918, giving details of his treatment, firstly at camp in Minz, then at another camp in Berlin, disbound leaves tied with string to punch hole margins, accompanied by the official account sent to the War Office in 1919 giving details of his capture, ‘At about 4:45am on the morning of 12th April the brigade major of 153 Inf. Brigade came to my headquarters and reported that there was a good deal of machine gun and rifle fire on this left front and that troops were falling back. I went out of my headquarters but in the dark could see no movement of troops, and there was no disorder on the road... ‘, the account becoming more dramatic until he was finally wounded in the head by a rifle bullet ‘which knocked me senseless, and [I] was captured’, plus a photograph album from Dick-Cunyngham’s time when stationed at St. Pol, France with photos of awards and decorations being awarded to troops, documenting a visit to Verdun battlefield in April 1921, showing battlefields, trench systems, and continuing with when serving with the British Army in France showing sports events, etc., a total of 157 photographs and postcards, plus some news cuttings and loose images, contemporary cloth, folio, plus other paperwork including personal letters written to him by his wife, 15 aerial photographs of the Western Front, mention in despatch certificates, etc. . (-)