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Mr Beckett.
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Colonial office.
With reference to our conversation this
morning regarding R.C.Barlow, the facta as far as I
know, are as follows :-
On the 25th February the Frovost Marshal's
Department,War Office, rang me up and asked for
Barlow's address, as he had, while awaiting General
Court Martial, escaped from custody on the 17th
January.
As we were unable to give the address,
the War Office asked us to telephone if he called
for his allowance, in order that they might come
to arrest him. He called on the 4th April, and was
duly caught.
We had 2 letters from him in April,asking
for his allowance to be sent to him, in which he
still signed himself, Lieutenant,Machine Gun Corpa.
and heard nothing more until we had a letter from
him at the end of May, when he stated he was a
Frivate in the ranks of the 4th Leicester Regiment,
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