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Schneidermuhl POW Camp
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Those known to have been held inSchneidermuhl POW Camp during the Great War 1914-1918. - Alsbury Charles Edward. Sgt. Durham Light Infantry
- Davies MM.. Robert William. Pte. Machine Gun Corps
- Dawson MID.. Leonard. Pte. Manchester Regiment
- Latham Alfred John. L/Cpl. Royal Warwickshire Regiment
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263849 Sgt. Charles Edward Alsbury 14th Btn. Durham Light Infantry Charles Alsbury joined the 1st Derby Yeomanry and was transferred to the 14th Durham Light Infantry at Bethune. He was taken prisoner and I believe he was a POW in Poland at (I am not sure of the spelling) Gross Born, Borne Sulinowo/Schneidemuhl (Pila). He was repatriated and returned to England, marrying Edith Lilian Holt in 1924. They had a son Allan. Charles died in June 1979 in Derby.
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258957 Pte. Leonard Dawson MID. E Coy, 16th Btn. Manchester Regiment My paternal Grandad, Len Dawson became a POW at Guillemont on 8th of August 1916.
He was sent to Schneidemuhl in Poland where he was when the war ended.
He befriended another POW Robert Cochrane of the Kings Rifles who died in the camp of T.B.early December 1918 prior to their repatriation to England.
Grandad consequently married his widow (Alice-my grandma)in Lancashire in 1919.
Due to ill health (gassing) Len and Alice moved to a drier climate (Perth, Australia) in 1927 with their 4 children one of whom was my Dad, also named Len who was born in East Manchester in 1921.
They never returned to England.
I have inherited Grandad's 3 WW1 Medals plus the 2 WW2 Medals he was awarded as a staff sergeant in the Australian Army.
Prior to his death in 1955, Grandad took part in ANZAC Day commemorations and marched with the Old Contemptibles (named after the K's description of the BEF as "Britain's contemptible little army").
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253398 L/Cpl. Alfred John Latham 2/8th Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment Alfred Latham was captured at Cambrai on the 5th of December 1917 and was transferred to Schneidemuhi P.O.W. camp in North East Germany which now part of Poland and has reverted to its Polish name of Pila.
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246272 Pte. Robert William Davies MM. 69th Coy. Machine Gun Corps Robert Davies was my grandfather, he died in 1981 in Stockton on Tees, Co Durham.
During the attack of the 69th Brigade on the Hill 60 Sector on 7th of June 1917. He was wounded in the wrist and was awarded the Military Medal for his actions.
Later in the War my Grandfather was taken prisoner by the Germans, he finally arrived home on Stockton on Tees around March 1922.
I am still in the process of trying to find more details of his history between 1917 and 1922.
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