I was digging around the internet for ancestry records when I found these: prisoner of war records for Kevin’s maternal grandfather, John Frederick Flatau, a.k.a. Opa.

You might notice they are all in French.

Google Translate and I have become friends. Really good friends!

And what Google couldn’t translate, I turned over to international friends (Thanks, Deniz!), and friends of those friends, for assistance. Finally, I have enough to piece together a snapshot into John’s last months serving in the First World War. Continue reading “Prisoner of War No. 44095”