HORRORS OF WITTENBERG WAR CAMP Stephen Field entered the war in France on 15th August 1914. He was taken prisoner during the retreat from Mons, and was held, along with 13 other British medical officers at Halle. On 10th February 1915, he along with Major Fry, Captains Priestley, Sutcliffe, Vidal, and Lieutenant Lauder, volunteered to go to Wittenberg camp, Saxony to provide medical care to prisoners suffering with typhus. A typhus epidemic had broken out in the camp in December 1914, whereupon the German staff, both military and medical, precipitately left the camp. Stephen became sickened and died of typhus on 10 April 1915.

Donald MacLeod