A place for PoW database amendments and additions

[mack]

hiya Charlie,there are no men listed with the name muchan in the RC archives,heres one for the database from my own archives

17991 Frederick,august muchan
17th battalion
B.coy
captured 23-4-17
repat 25-12-18
54 Bolton st,gorton

mack

[charlie]

Thanks Mack, I've added him in. He's probably indexed under W  

Charlie

Mack are you having a bad day?

[mack]

hiya Charlie.
when I typed in muchan,nothing came up .good find mate

mack

[charlie]

Mack,
Using the ICRC database has driven me as daft as the people who digitized it

Normaly entering Muchan into a search engine would take you to names beginning with MUC or in the worst case to MAC. It happens quite often that the search engine takes you past the name and gives the impression that the name doesn't exist. In this case it takes you through to MUDD when in actual effect MAC starts under MOYLE (the section before). The last 15 or so names under Moyle start with Mac*.

I can explain a lot of things but not what was in their heads when they digitized the database! Just carelessness I think, as they use the same alpabet in Switzerland as we do.

Charlie

[charlie]

A Battalion please, for 201930 Pte Luke Merrington.

Thanks
Charlie

[mack]

A Battalion please, for 201930 Pte Luke Merrington.

Thanks
Charlie

2/5th battalion Charlie

mack

[mack]

hiya Charlie.
heres a few amendments and additions,i,me clearing through my database,many of them will already be in the RC lists so I can bin those ones.

17.agnew shrapnel in leg
1216.gillett[signaller]grenade wounds right arm,4 clough st,bolton
1700 a.e Hutchinson,GSW left arm,9 allen st,worksop
1806.geo jones,31 the grove,eccles
1929,c.lambert,repat Leith 18-12-18
1963.leathley,repat dover 8-12-18,captured 13-5-16,5 council st,hulme
2096.mckiernan,shrapnel left thigh and left shoulder,26 Carmen st,ancoats
2164.joe murray[bomber]A.coy,POW 23-4-17 wounded left hand,at langensalza
2178.b.newton,16th batt,B.coy
2216 h.postles,middle name fryer,8 hooker st,northwich,D.coy,19th battalion,GSW right shoulder,at minden
2216.w.c page,20th manchesters,died at 5.30am at quedlinburg hospital,buried quedlinburg central cemetery
2348.j.e Rushton.died 15-5-17,buried soest osthafen cemetery

a addition pte 28838 jeremiah canniffe,17 middlewood st,harpurhey,19th battalion,POW 23-7-16,GSWs elbow+neck,repat to 2nd Scottish gen hospital,edinboro then to 2nd western gen,manchester 11-1-19

a addition.Lt Arthur james aldred,288 brookland terrace,worsley rd,swinton,7th batt,POW 21-3-18,repat 11-12-18

mack

[charlie]

Thanks Mack, all added or updated. Jeremiah Canniffe was already in the database as Cunliffe. I must have thought he was a southerner who couldn't pronounce Cunliffe properly 

Charlie

[mack]

4 more Charlie
997.j.english middle name henry,12 garden st,withy grove Manchester
1090.a.fittis,2 Liverpool st,salford
1480.middle name bright.
1712.g.irwin,22 john st,moss side

mack

[mack]

1687.h.hunt,94 turk lane Oldham
1790.a.jones[bugler] 13 bank st,hulme,captured trones wood 11th july 1916,repat at thannington camp 15-1-19
1806.g.jones,31 the grove,eccles,the Coventry address was where his wife+son stayed while he was away.
1870.h.kemp,wellington rd,eccles
2033.macaulay,brindley st,brindle heath

one to add.26516 Edward lowe,30 church terrace,stockport,POW 23-7-16,19th battalion,repat 14-4-18

mack

[charlie]

Thanks Mack, all updated. Turk Lane is more likely Turf Lane in Chadderton.

Charlie

[charlie]

Any ideas who this is please, he is just given as 2/Lt Miller

http://grandeguerre.icrc.org/en/File/Details/2392078/3/2/

[charlie]

A Battalion please for 277113 L/Cpl Alfred Mellor. It would appear from the MiCs that he was decorated, any ideas with which one.
Thanks
Charlie

[mack]

hiya Charlie.
the only officer captured with the surname miller was 2/Lt r.t miller,taken 3-9-14 with the 2nd battalion,he was sent to Switzerland on 12th august 1916 and repatriated to England on 23-3-18,MIDs[haig]17-2-15.
its possible the two PA numbers refer to two different officers,Lt ralph,m miller was reported killed on 30th july 1916 with 17th batt,they may have got both cross referenced.

mack

[mack]

A Battalion please for 277113 L/Cpl Alfred Mellor. It would appear from the MiCs that he was decorated, any ideas with which one.
Thanks
Charlie

hiya Charlie.
2/7th battalion
unfortunately my PC is nearly had it,it wont accept my gallantry award roll CD so I cant help with the decoration bit.

mack