A place for PoW database amendments and additions

[mack]

hiya Charlie
a bit of info on captain john,oliver McElroy[2191 in database]he lived at guilmore,gorteen,sligo,died at Grimsby on 4th march 1919 aged 36,buried in killaraght churchyard.

mack

[charlie]

Thanks Mack, I'll add it in.

Charlie

[charlie]

Some more please Mack.

25488 Norman Williams, I can't find him in the MiCs
http://grandeguerre.icrc.org/en/File/Details/4311628/3/2/

A Bn for 252728 Isaac Williamson

302693 E Wylie, I cant find him in the MiCs
http://grandeguerre.icrc.org/en/File/Details/5130105/3/2/

362234 Cpl Richard Wilson 18th Bn, his Number Rank and Battalion are questionable. Is he 302034 Pte Wilson?
http://grandeguerre.icrc.org/en/File/Details/606940/3/2/

Thanks
Charlie

[mack]

Some more please Mack.

25488 Norman Williams, I can't find him in the MiCs
http://grandeguerre.icrc.org/en/File/Details/4311628/3/2/

A Bn for 252728 Isaac Williamson

302693 E Wylie, I cant find him in the MiCs
http://grandeguerre.icrc.org/en/File/Details/5130105/3/2/

362234 Cpl Richard Wilson 18th Bn, his Number Rank and Battalion are questionable. Is he 302034 Pte Wilson?
http://grandeguerre.icrc.org/en/File/Details/606940/3/2/

Thanks
Charlie

hiya Charlie
Isaac Williamson was 2/6th battalion

I cant find anything on norman Williams and e.wylie,i think your right about 362234 Richard Wilson,he is probably 302034

mack

[charlie]

Thanks Mack,
Do you have another Battalion for Richard Wilson or is he only listed as 18th?

Charlie

[mack]

Thanks Mack,
Do you have another Battalion for Richard Wilson or is he only listed as 18th?

Charlie

hiya Charlie.
hes listed as 18th battalion attatched to MGC

mack

[charlie]

Thanks Mack,
I'll enter them in the database with a note against their names.

Charlie

[charlie]

Mack
Do you have anything more on 352901 Arthur Maurice Wilson, 3498 in our database?  He does not show up in the ICRC records and all we have is - C Coy 16th Bn, taken 21.03.1918 and his home address.

Charlie

[charlie]

Can you help with Alfred Withing, 17th Bn

http://grandeguerre.icrc.org/en/File/Details/1497203/3/2/

Thanks
Charlie

hiya Charlie
theres nobody in any records on ancestry with that name

mack

[charlie]

Mack,
Sorry, I overlooked Arthur Maurice Wilsons index card, it just gives a negative response. It looks like he died of wounds on the 21.03.1918 and was not a PoW. His body was found at Grid Square (1:40000 map) 62D U30 B7.6 which is south of Villers Bretonneux. The CWGC have him as 9th Bn.

http://grandeguerre.icrc.org/en/File/Details/1439488/3/2/
http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/253631/WILSON,%20A%20M

Charlie

[charlie]

Mack,
No 3513 in our database - 2408 R Wolstenholme, I think is 375663 Robert Wolstenholme. He is listed by the ICRC as 2/10th Bn attached 1/Kings Liverpool. 375663 is a 10th Bn number. Is that his long number and 2408 his short one ?

Thanks
Charlie

[mack]

Mack,
No 3513 in our database - 2408 R Wolstenholme, I think is 375663 Robert Wolstenholme. He is listed by the ICRC as 2/10th Bn attached 1/Kings Liverpool. 375663 is a 10th Bn number. Is that his long number and 2408 his short one ?

Thanks
Charlie

hiya Charlie.
I don't know where the number 2408 came from,theres only his long number in the medal rolls[375663]2/10th battalion.

mack

[charlie]

Mack,
Which Robert Wright is this please

http://grandeguerre.icrc.org/en/File/Details/2705479/3/2/

Could you also check the Battalion for 45013 Walter Wright, he is listed as 16th and 17th.

Charlie

[mack]

Mack,
Which Robert Wright is this please

http://grandeguerre.icrc.org/en/File/Details/2705479/3/2/

Could you also check the Battalion for 45013 Walter Wright, he is listed as 16th and 17th.

Charlie

hiya Charlie
8946 Robert wright.17th battalion
45013 walter wright.17th battalion.

mack

[charlie]

The latest database update is now over on the main site. This will be the last regular update. As far as I can tell all the PoWs from the Western Front in the ICRC records are now listed in our database.

Perhaps in due course the ICRC will release their records for the Balkan theatre of operations.

Thanks to all who have contributed to the database over the last two years but especially to Mack who's help has been invaluable.

Please continue to post any updates to the information contained in the database or indeed names of PoWs who I might have missed.

Charlie