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Captain Michael Harrison, 2nd Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment (left) and Captain Henry Antrobus, 4th Battalion, the Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment), 1918 (c)

Copy photograph, World War One (1914-1918), 1918 (c).

On the left, Captain (later Lieutenant Colonel) Michael Charles Cooper Harrison (Distinguished Service Order; Military Cross) (1888-1967), 2nd Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment, and on the right, Captain (later Brigadier) Henry Antrobus Cartwright (1887-1957) (Military Cross), 4th Battalion, the Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment) (1887-1957). Both officers were taken prisoner in 1914. They mounted multiple escape attempts from camps in Germany, which they recounted in the joint memoir 'Within Four Walls', published in 1930.

NAM Accession Number

NAM. 1991-03-47-1

Copyright/Ownership

National Army Museum, Out of Copyright

Location

National Army Museum, Study Collection

Object URL

https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1991-03-47-1

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