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Rastatt POW Camp
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Want to know more about Rastatt POW Camp? There are:-1 items tagged Rastatt POW Camp available in our Library
These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Great War.
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Those known to have been held inRastatt POW Camp during the Great War 1914-1918. - Heyes Arthur. 2Lt. 55 Squadron
- McCarter William Harold Raphael. Capt. Royal Army Medical Corps
- Moore MC and Bar. Hamilton Stephen. Capt. Royal Army Medical Corps
- Peers Irving Aloysius. 2Lt. 98 Squadron
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263430 2Lt. Irving Aloysius "I.A." Peers 98 Squadron I.A. Peers joined the Imperial Royal Flying Corps in 1917 and received his training at Camp Borden, Ontario, Canada. When sent to Europe, he was stationed with No. 98 Squadron, a bombing unit.
His plane, an Airco DH9, was shot down over Belgium in 1918 and he was a POW in Rastatt, Germany for the duration of the war.
Upon his repatriation and return to the US, he enlisted with the Navy and was stationed in Great Lakes, Illinois for training. In March 1920 he deserted and went AWOL. Story is he became a barnstormer and because he was in trouble for deserting, he changed his name to Arthur J Doyle.
Eventually he changed his name back to Irving Aloysius Peers. I.A. was a door-to-door salesman. It's not known exactly why he kept moving west away from his Boston family but eventually he and his wife along with their children settled in Rochester, NY. Irving Peers died suddenly in 1948 at age 49.
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252274 2Lt. Arthur "Arch" Heyes 55 Squadron My father, Arthur Heyes's war exploits, both WW1 and WW2 can be read at this link.
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245708 Capt. Hamilton Stephen Moore MC and Bar Royal Army Medical Corps I met an elderly man who is in the same nursing home as my mother. he told me of his grandfather Capt. Hamilton Stephen Moore M.C. and bar who served in the First World War. The family came from Loudoun Manse, Newmilns in Ayrshire, Hamilton S Moore's father was Rev. Hamilton Moore, and H. S. Moore had a sister Eleanor Allan Robertson nee Moore who was a well known artist, one of the Glasgow Girls. I located his POW record on the International Red Cross website, and it records the POW camp as being Rasstatt.
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218169 Capt. William Harold Raphael McCarter Royal Army Medical Corps William Harold Raphael McCarter was my paternal grandfather. He served during the Great War as a doctor. He was captured during the Spring offensive at Epehy in March 1918 and spent the rest of the war as a prisoner. The main POW camps where he was held were Rastatt, Karlsruhe and eventually Graudenz in Poland. I have transcribed his diary which is now very fragile, and I also have a book of cartoons painted by one of the officers in his battalion before their capture. I am putting everything together in a book and am still searching for relevant pictures of the POW camps and my grandfather.
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