Izydor Prokopp Letter to John Franklin Hardesty - 1921
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Brzese Bugiem [Brest, Belarus], 16.6.921r. My dear Captain, I have received your kind letter of 5 March 1920 and like this time I have send you five or six letters, but perhaps you haven't received my letters or your address were fowl. After our last parting I have made a long voyage from a packet in camp Gutersloh were I was unloaded. That were a great camp for three thousand mens when all prisoners of war were formerly hangred but you know very good what we have had in Germany. I tested there a bit beginning the revolution in Germany – the end of November 1918. In this time I escaped and after two week had been in my natal town where I found all destruction because they were position and in time the Hun occeped the land. I hav't found nothing there. My parents rested till this time in Russia and I know not more of him. I rested no long there because after some days I received an ordre from our polonaise generall staff to come to service in our army. From and 1918 –
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1920 I were in front [ms illegible: 1 wd] [Bolsheviks] where were twice wounded and contused. Now I am in list of Bialystoker shooters regiments. So, it's all of myself. I thank you very much for remembrance and beg your kindness to writ me how I most do that is because the civisme of U.S.A. I send you my best kind regards and I am waiting your answer. Most sincerly Izyodor Prokopp. My address B.Z. Bialostockiegs p. strzelcow 79 p.p. Brzesc n/ Bugiem por.I.Prokopp Poland P.S. Perhaps you know where is at present Dr. John Abbot and Dr. Robert Jeffrey? Send me please your photograph and I will send you my. I
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| Title | Izydor Prokopp Letter to John Franklin Hardesty - 1921 |
| Creator | Prokopp, Izydor |
| Source | Prokopp, Izydor. Letter to John Franklin Hardesty. 1921. John Franklin Hardesty Papers, 1867-2007. A2293. Missouri History Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri. |
| Description | John Franklin Hardesty entered the U.S. Army Medical Corps and volunteered to serve as a surgeon with the British Army during WWI. In March of 1918, he was captured by Germans in Amiens, France. Hardesty was imprisoned at Ratstatt and Villingen Prisoner of War Camps for eight months. Hardesty corresponded with the men he was imprisoned with for many years after their release from prison. In this letter, Izydor Prokopp of Poland, described the post-war conditions in Poland. |
| Subject LCSH | World War, 1914-1918--Germany; World War, 1914-1918--Prisoners |
| Subject Local | WWI; World War I |
| Site Accession Number | A2239 |
| Contributing Institution | Missouri History Museum |
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| Date Original | 1921 |
| Language | English |