A place for PoW database amendments and additions

[charlie]

Thanks Tim and Mack, I'll add all that in.

Mack, your German is improving

Charlie

[mack]

210.bedford.lived 2 clare st,royton
398.fred,h brooks,middle name harry,army number 248012.

all buried le cateau,all died in the hospital there
1164 Gaffney middle name Longmire
1171.lived 3 halls cottage,horsham rd,sussex
1260.graham.middle name taylor,more in PA32012
1296.gregory.middle name grove
1379.hampson.died of general weakness[privation]29-9-19
1706.hyatt.middle name Charles,more in PA31793,died 24-9-18.
1951.lawes,middle name john,PA28358

also died in hospital le cateau,buried le cateau
Alfred oliver.PA34831-PA34000-PA37835
William,henry,elvery palmer.PA28092
john Thomas.PA33920,captured 24-3-18,died 22-8-18
joseph,edward Norton.PA28085
54477 dennis saunderson,7 Hubert st,london,captured 21-3-18,died 26-9-18 cardiac weakness
302398 Richard,henry boothman,spenbrook cottage,fence,burnley.PA27034
53637 William Sutton,2/6th batt,17 moore st,accrington,captured 21-3-18,died enteritis 18-8-18

mack

[mack]

Thanks Tim and Mack, I'll add all that in.

Mack, your German is improving

Charlie

your right Charlie,i have been able to understand quite a few words without using the translator.

mack

[charlie]

Thanks Mack, I've added all of those apart from John Thomas I can't see him on PA 28358 and his index card only lists PA33920 which doesn't record his death.
Can you check the PA number please.
Charlie

[mack]

Thanks Mack, I've added all of those apart from John Thomas I can't see him on PA 28358 and his index card only lists PA33920 which doesn't record his death.
Can you check the PA number please.
Charlie

sorry Charlie,its my error,it was PA33920

mack

[charlie]

Are the Battalions known please for the following:

53846 Ernest Morgan

William Norris. His index card gives him as 18th Bn taken 21.07.1918, so obviously incorrect. His index card doesn't give a number, but having looked at the MiCs 84784 seems the most likely.

Thanks
Charlie

[mack]

Are the Battalions known please for the following:

53846 Ernest Morgan

William Norris. His index card gives him as 18th Bn taken 21.07.1918, so obviously incorrect. His index card doesn't give a number, but having looked at the MiCs 84784 seems the most likely.

Thanks
Charlie

hiya Charlie.
morgan was 2/7th batt

William Norris,i cant find anyone that comes close,the place he came from,oakesdale,is a small town in Washington,USA,even today the population is less than 450.

mack

[mack]

hiya Charlie.
heres two rare ones.already in the database,a bit more info

pte 7764 George brookes,high lane,stockport,13th battlaion,captured 7-3-17 on the dorian front,POW in Bulgaria,in phillipolis camp,captured with pte 7858 Robert,allen coward,also 13th battalion.both repat 1-12-18 at dover

nobody knew anything about these two men,the records office said they had no records of any manchesters being prisoners from this front,they only found out about them when they sent a letter begging for boots and clothing,they are probably the only two captured in this theatre.

mack.
ps.curious how they ended up on a repat ship that seems to have sailed from france[R53233]

[charlie]

Thanks Mack,
There's a Washington in America as well, that does surprise me
I reckon I've found William Norris, how they managed to connect him with the Manchesters is beyond me.

http://trees.ancestry.com/view/Military.aspx?tid=30744730&pid=12304655450&vid=1296a9c8-fd45-4055-9a63-c321ffe5eb6f

Charlie

[mack]

Thanks Mack,
There's a Washington in America as well, that does surprise me
I reckon I've found William Norris, how they managed to connect him with the Manchesters is beyond me.

http://trees.ancestry.com/view/Military.aspx?tid=30744730&pid=12304655450&vid=1296a9c8-fd45-4055-9a63-c321ffe5eb6f

Charlie

that's him Charlie,oakesdale is in Whitman county.nice work

mack

[charlie]

hiya Charlie.
heres two rare ones.already in the database,a bit more info

pte 7764 George brookes,high lane,stockport,13th battlaion,captured 7-3-17 on the dorian front,POW in Bulgaria,in phillipolis camp,captured with pte 7858 Robert,allen coward,also 13th battalion.both repat 1-12-18 at dover

nobody knew anything about these two men,the records office said they had no records of any manchesters being prisoners from this front,they only found out about them when they sent a letter begging for boots and clothing,they are probably the only two captured in this theatre.

mack.
ps.curious how they ended up on a repat ship that seems to have sailed from france[R53233]

Bulgaria was occupied by the French after it's surrender, the French organised the repatriation of the French and British PoWs, so presumably they all where shipped to France first. There's an interesting article re PoWs in Bulgaria here:

http://cantabulgarian.soc.srcf.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Rumen-Cholakov-Prisoners-of-War-in-Bulgaria-during-the-First-World-War.pdf

Page 62 refers to repatriatiion.

Charlie

PS thanks for the update on those two rare birds, they're the only two 13th Bn in the data base. Good work

[mack]

202458 George bleasdale,died at valenciennes 22-7-1918,born 20-6-1876,he was a professional footballer,played for Liverpool,blackburn and darwen FC,he was the grandfather of alan bleasdale the writer[boys from the blackstuff].

theres a bit of info in PA37127.

google George bleasdale darwen fc,theres a battered photo of him

mack

[charlie]

42097 John Thomas Nutter is listed by the ICRC as 18th Bn, he was taken on 21.03.1918. Is his correct Bn known please.

Charlie

[mack]

42097 John Thomas Nutter is listed by the ICRC as 18th Bn, he was taken on 21.03.1918. Is his correct Bn known please.

Charlie

your ok with the 18th batt Charlie,i don't remember coming across any 18th men being captured on that date before.

mack

[mack]

more additions Charlie.

56.p.appleyard,woodside,gordon rd,claygate surrey[family home]he was a 3rd officer in the merchant navy when the war began and was awaiting another posting,but he enlisted instead,his next address after the war,was the cable ship "RAMOS" captured and wounded left side+arm 12-10-18 le cateau

60.h.armstrong.7 Charlton st,manchester
62.t.arnfield.shady oak view,glossop rd,marple,HQ,Acoy.16th batt
90.a.atkins.102 ellesmere st,salford
162.george Barnett.31 Gordon st,salford
105.2/Lt henry baggs,98 Heywood st,manchester
172.thomas,henry barry,10 lower seddon st salford
179.richard barton,MIC says r.m barton LFs
188,a.e bates,5 Cambrian terrace,cliff at hoo,kent,wounded by shrapnel arm,chest,leg and hand,C.coy,2/6th batt190 correct name Thomas,william batey,rose cottage,grassmere,cumberland
196.t baumber,8 brook st,digby Lincoln
211,middle name George
224 j.bell,no man with this number[300758]
227.r.bell,claybank house,station rd,kirkham
229,beller,nobody with this number
236.e,a Bennett,edwin,arnold Bennett,penwortham,westgate,urmston.
245.p.bennington,correct name Patrick hennigham
252.john William benson,25 Albany st,beswick,pow 30-7-16,repat 9-1-19
270 g.bimpson,48 bag lane Atherton
286.e.blainey,2 hathershaw rd,oldham,16th batt Manchester hill 21-3-18,B.coy
288.h.bland.correct name Alfred eland,20 miller terrace,silksworth,2/5th batt,captured 21-3-18,at munster II.repat hull 2-12-18
297 bodman,correct name boothman
366.g.brewis,green batt,alnwick,captured 21-3-18,repat dover 28-11-18
367.j.bridge,24 sefton st,crumpsall.
398.248012 Frederick,harry brooks

mack