A place for PoW database amendments and additions

[Tim Bell]

Well done Mack. CSM Young gained DCM for his part of the action on 22/3/1918.

[charlie]

Great stuff, thanks Mack

[charlie]

Is the correct Battalion for 11096 Thomas Kenny known? ICRC gives him as both 18th and 19th.
Thanks
Charlie

[mack]

Is the correct Battalion for 11096 Thomas Kenny known? ICRC gives him as both 18th and 19th.
Thanks
Charlie

hiya Charlie
he was in the 18th battalion,captured 30-7-16,lived at 25 Cyprus st,stretford,aged 22,occupation fitter,he was repatriated at Leith on 3-1-19 and admitted to the 2nd Scottish gen hospital at edinboro then transferred to the 2nd western gen hospital Manchester on 12-1-19,he had been injured in the left leg at guillemont and suffered from shell shock.

mack

[charlie]

Thanks Mack, he must have been one of the last to be repatriated, the majority would seem to be home by the end of 1918.

Charlie

[mack]

Thanks Mack, he must have been one of the last to be repatriated, the majority would seem to be home by the end of 1918.

Charlie

hiya Charlie.
the otherThomas Kennys mentioned in the red cross lists are the same man,he was in B.coy not C.coy,the Thomas john Kenny is also the same man,the service number quoted[10254]is probably his POW camp number.

mack

[charlie]

Thanks Mack, I had already got them as the same man. He also suffered a shrapnel wound to the head. They moved him around quite a bit as well, a Field Hospital, Hospital in Paderborn and five different PoW camps.

Charlie

[charlie]

Could someone look up the Battalion for 8206 Hugh Alfred Knight please, the ICRC records only list him as D Coy.
Thanks
Charlie

[Tim Bell]

An 8206 Andrew Knight received BWM/VM, noted as 17th Bttn, then 19th and returning to 17th Bttn.  Noted as E Knight on Star Roll disembarked 8/11/15. Transferrred to Reserve Class Z 16/3/1919.

There was an 8210 A Knight in XIII Pln, D Coy and the Bugle Band.  Don't know if this is the same man.  I can't find 8206 in the Roll.

[charlie]

Many thanks Tim, 17th Bn fits in nicely with where he was taken - Roupy 22.03.18. 8206 Knight has a MiC, 8210 shows as William Kitt, could it be a typo in the roll? I have noted the correct christian name, the ICRC has him as "Hughes" Alfred Knight. I presumed - wrongly - that they had mis-spellt Hugh.
Charlie

[mack]

the correct name is 8206 Alfred,hughes knight
son of littensor,henry+elizabeth,ann knight
born 19-12-1894
before they moved to blackley,the family lived in west gorton
Alfred was a tailors cutter
his brother 35041 George,henry knight was killed at arras with the 12th battalion on 25th april 1917

mack

[charlie]

Thanks Mack, it makes a change for the ICRC to have got it right

Charlie

[charlie]

The latest update of the database has been uploaded to the main site - thanks Pete.
Charlie

[charlie]

Has anyone with access to the medal rolls time/willingness to help fill some gaps in the database. There are about 70-80 cases were information regarding which Bn they served in is missing from the ICRC records. If so let me know and then we can arrange to use the same hymn sheet to sing from.
Thanks
Charlie

[mack]

Has anyone with access to the medal rolls time/willingness to help fill some gaps in the database. There are about 70-80 cases were information regarding which Bn they served in is missing from the ICRC records. If so let me know and then we can arrange to use the same hymn sheet to sing from.
Thanks
Charlie

me Charlie

mack