Private Papers of Lieutenant Colonel G J Eastburn MC | Imperial War Museums

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Ts account (13pp), published in "Motorcycling" in February 1915, of his escape from internment in Germany after the outbreak of war in 1914, together with a copy of the instrument of surrender of General Martiny's Army to the 48th Division in Italy, November 1918, and his record of service in the two world wars.

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Cataloguer RWAS

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Catalogue date 1976-11

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File: Weight 0.1 kg

Box: Weight 2.9 kg

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Documents.6793

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