Arrived overseas: 15 August 1914. Connection: PoW postcard 7683 Drummer Asher John Grey Hurrell of the 2nd Suffolk Regiment sent this card from Dyrotz camp in 1917, noting on the front that is was from "Friend Asher" lest the lady he sent it to - Miss Ivy Naylor, should think otherwise. A career soldier, he had been in France for precisely 12 days befiore he was captured at Le Cateau on the 26th August 1914, one of over 700 casualties sustained by the battalion that day, with many of those men taken prisoner. News about his capture was obviously slow to filter back to the UK, because on the 29th October, his worried mother asked for a letter to be published in the Stowmarket Post, asking for news of him. Eliza Hurrell wrote, "I have been informed by the War Office that my son, Drummer Asher Hurrell, No 7683, has been missing since the action at Le Cateau on the 26th August. I should be greatly obliged if you would give publicity to this in your columns as it might possib...