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On 26 July 1917

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2nd Lieutenant Georg Bach was captured near the village of Hooge which lay a couple of miles or so  from what had once been the beautiful medieval town of Ypres. He came from Nuremberg and was serving with one of the Bavarian regiments. He had slight shrapnel wounds to his left arm and right shoulder. He entered Skipton Camp in January 1918.