Leicester Bottesford – Prisoners Of War Concert – 1917

About this Prisoners Of War concert programme

A rare First World War programme for a Prisoners Of War Concert held at The School Room, Bottesford, Leicester, on 15th February 1917. Performers include the Bottesford Church Choir, Beatrice James and Mr F Miller, billed as humorist. Village concerts like this raised money to send food and comfort parcels to British servicemen held in enemy camps. A poignant piece of wartime social history for collectors of old theatre programmes and WW1 home front memorabilia.

Condition: V Good, cfld, lcr, a few tiny marks (what the codes mean)

Did you know?

• During the First World War, local fundraising helped supply regular food parcels to British prisoners of war, vital to their survival.
• Bottesford’s church of St Mary the Virgin holds the tombs of the Earls of Rutland of nearby Belvoir Castle.
• One Rutland tomb there famously records two sons said to have died by ‘wicked practice and sorcery’, linked to the Belvoir witches of 1619.