The Register-Leader, December 19, 1918
Private George Pfaff, for three years a prisoner in a German prison camp, has been repatriated according to word received the first of the week by brother Will Pfaff, 632 Fifth Street. The word was in the form of an official message from Ottawa, Canada, and stated that George Pfaff had arrived in Dover, England, December 9, from Camp Giessen, Germany.
George Pfaff is well known here where the greater part of his life has been spent. He was probably the first Mariettan to go into service, having enlisted in the Canadian army in October 1914. He served with Company C, 29th Battalion Infantry, and on April 20, 1916, he was taken prisoner by the Germans.
In May of 1916, Will Pfaff received official word from the Canadian government that George was missing. The family at once got into communications with Canada in an effort to locate him, but they were unable to get information, their first knowledge that he was a prisoner coming when in July, they received a letter written in Camp Giessen, saying that he had been taken prisoner. Letters have been coming from him since his capture, but were so strictly censored that he could give very little news of himself.
It is expected that he will be home very soon and a warm welcome will be waiting for him. Before his entrance into the service, he worked as an iron moulder in this city.
From Imperial War Museums, UK
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