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German soldier Karl Schildt wrote these letters while he being held as a Prisoner of War at Flax Bourton, outside Bristol. He wrote, ‘Tell me Alwine, have you really completely forgotten about me?’ In February 1919, he received news that Alwine had become engaged to another man while he had been away. Loaned by Dr Colin R. Chapman, Gloucestershire