Author:Maurice George Delpratt
An Australian WWI prisoner of war. Maurice George Delpratt was born at Tambourine, Queensland, on 23 December 1886. At the outbreak of war in 1914 he volunteered for the 5th Light Horse Regiment. His unit embarked from Sydney on board the Transport A34 Persic on 21 December 1914, and was sent to Egypt for training. His mother, Ada, died while he was on his way to Egypt. Delpratt fought at Gallipoli and was taken prisoner by the Turks on 28 June 1915. He was officially listed as missing in action and his family was informed of this status in July that year. He remained a prisoner of war for the duration of hostilities, being imprisoned mainly at Hadji-Kiri, near Belemedik, in the Taurus Mountains where he worked on the Baghdad railway construction. He was released after the armistice of November 1918 and after a brief stay in England was repatriated to Australia on the 3rd July 1919. He died in Warwick on the 8th March 1957.
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- Maurice George Delpratt Correspondence (1915-1920)
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