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Prisoner of War
Skelsmergh Men
Malcolm Crossley was born in Kendal, Cumbria in July 1897 and moved with his parents to 28 Mealbank around 1907.
He and his elder brother Bruce went to Mealbank school, leaving at the age of 14 to join his father Thomas at the Braithwaites’ woollen mill in Mealbank.
When war broke out Bruce joined the Machine Gun Corps then the Tank Corps and Malcolm the Lancashire Fusiliers.
Bruc…
Contributors
- Anthony Cousins
Subject
- World War I
- Malcolm Crossley
- World War I
Type of item
- Story
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
Creation date
- 2015-04-25 20:45:31 UTC
- 2015-04-25
- 2015-04-25
Places
- Western Front
Provenance
- INTERNET
Source
- UGC
Identifier
- 19798
- https://1914-1918.europeana.eu/contributions/19798
Language
- English
- eng
Is part of
- EnrichEuropeana
Providing country
- Europe
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2019-09-11T08:24:45.987Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2023-06-05T08:05:33.085Z