author
E. C. H. (Ernest Charles Holtom) (Surgeon)
1884–1964
A Royal Navy surgeon turned a harrowing wartime ordeal into a vivid firsthand memoir. Best known for an account of captivity in German East Africa, his writing offers an immediate, human view of World War I far from Europe’s main fronts.
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Two years' captivity in German East Africa : being the personal experiences of Surgeon E. C. H., Royal Navy
by E. C. H. (Ernest Charles Holtom) (Surgeon)
About the author
Born in 1884, Ernest Charles Holtom is identified in library and Project Gutenberg records as a surgeon and the author of Two years' captivity in German East Africa: being the personal experiences of Surgeon E. C. H., Royal Navy, first published in London by Hutchinson & Co. in 1919.
His book is a personal narrative drawn from his experience as a Royal Navy surgeon during the opening phase of World War I. It follows his deployment in 1914 and his subsequent imprisonment in German East Africa, giving readers a direct account of war, captivity, and daily life in a part of the conflict that is less often remembered.
Reliable biographical information about Holtom beyond those core facts is limited in the sources I could confirm here. Even so, his memoir has endured as a valuable eyewitness record, and the dates commonly attached to his name are 1884–1964.