A place for PoW database amendments and additions

[charlie]

Many thanks Tim.

Charlie

[Tim Bell]

Exonerated Officer not yet in the database

2nd Lt Samuel Arnold Jackson (b Oldham 23/8/1888) Bank Clerk in Oldham 1911. Enlisted 1/1/1914.  Pte 6763 in X Pln, 16th Bttn France 8/11/1915. GSW Knee & Thigh 1/7/1916. Depot 7/7/1916. Hosp Blackpool to 2/12/1916. 69th TR. Off Cadet, Bushey Hall 5/7/1917. Comm 4th Bttn 30/10/1917. Transferred from 19th Bttn to 17th Bttn on 6/2/1918.  Exonerated Officers List. Troutbeck, Windermere in 1923.

[charlie]

Tim,
Many thanks. Do you know where and when he was captured? Troutbeck, Windermere, I take it, is where he was living post war.

Charlie

[Tim Bell]

Hi Charlie,
It's solely the mention that of the Exonerated Officer on the MIC that made me think Lt Jackson had been a POW.  No other evidence and I assume you've already been through the ICRC "Jackson" list. 
Troutbeck is the post-war address on the MIC.  He married there too.
Cheers
Tim

[charlie]

Hello Tim,
He‘s not in the ICRC database but turns up in the roll of British Officer PoWs. Taken 22.03.1918 while with the 17th Bn, repat 18.12.1918.

Charlie

[Tim Bell]

Well spotted Charlie,
The War Diary posted him Missing from 22/3/1918.

[Tim Bell]

Lt Harry Taylor MC is also on the 17th Bttn Missing List for 22/3/1918, but not on the Schedule.
Also
2nd Lt Charles Stanley Miles
2nd Lt Thomas Longworth
2nd Lt Frank Valentine Harrison (MC in 1920)

[charlie]

Thanks again Tim,
2/Lts Miles, Longworth & Harrison are all in the roll, strange that quite a few Officers seem to be missing from the ICRC database. I can imagine I may have missed the odd one but four so far from the same Bn?

Lt Taylor isn‘t in the roll, so perhaps he turned up again.

I‘ll go through the Officers roll for the Manchesters in the near future, 128 Officers are on it. In the meantime let me know if you find anymore.

Charlie

[Tim Bell]

Hi Charlie,
I wonder if they are recorded as posted to 90th Bgd or some other term?
Harry Taylor MC was assumed dead.
T

[charlie]

Tim,
They could be anywhere then

Another 17th Bn Officer not in the ICRC database is Capt John Lambert Clayton, taken on 22.03.1918, repat 01.12.1918.

Charlie

[Gcham]

Im having difficulty posting 3 photos of William Davies (25225) Wendi Suggested I post the photos on the thread, however am  getting Error message.  Please advise.
Thank you
Gill Hamilton

[charlie]

Gill,
Attachments must be less than 1Mb in total per post. If the photos exceed this amount either resize them or post them individually.

I would have thought they would be better in the 16th Bn section of the „photo and postcard“ board, they will get „buried“ and be hard to find in this thread.

http://themanchesters.org/forum/index.php?board=15.0

Charlie

[charlie]

The database has been updated again. Thanks to Tim some 17th Bn Officers have been added. The repatriation dates for quite a few of the existing officer entries have also been added. With the help of a couple of members on the „Feldgrau Forum“ http://feldgrau.pytalhost.com I have been able to establish the locations of some of the German medical units.

Charlie

[charlie]

The database has been updated again with a few corrections.

[Tim Bell]

L/Sgt or Sgt  Arthur Allott died in a German Hospital 26/3/1918.  See GWF thread, incl  ICRC link. https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/270027-serjeant-allott-a/?tab=comments#comment-2741937