Afterwards!

After Lt Birch was posted as "missing" his family left no stone unturned to find out what had become of him.

After making unofficial investigations they contacted the War Office and received the following reply.

 

Next came the dreaded telegram.

 

Enquiries were also made through the "Queen Victoria Jubilee Fund" who liased with the International Red Cross and witnesses were interviewed even though they were POWs. This is the statement from Private (?) G. Pratty