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Hameln Weser POW Camp
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Those known to have been held inHameln Weser POW Camp during the Great War 1914-1918. - Atherall Fred. Pte. East Kent Regiment
- Bennett James. Pte South Lancashire Regiment
- Hill George. Pte. Durham Light Infantry
- Martin Frank. Pte. East Surrey Regiment
- Moore James. Pte. Royal Irish Rifles
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264102 Pte. Frank Martin 13th (Wandsworth) Btn. East Surrey Regiment  Frank Martin, East Surrey Regiment was a PoW during WW1
He was captured on 8th of May 1917 at Fresnoy, France while they were defending Fresnoy against a massive German counterattack. Frank was one of 420 missing.
Bob Nunn sent me a photo which shows him with two other soldiers with Kr. Gifhorn written the back. In the photo, he is the man on the right as viewed wearing 13th East Surrey’s Wandsworth Battalion cap badge. Kr. is the German abbr. for Kreiss, a Government area. Regardless, Gifhorn is fixed and is on Luneburger Heath.
During the Great War the prisoners in Hannover area were administered by X Army Corps and it's area contained some huge Mannschaftslager such as Soltau on Luneburger Heath which, to get a scale of the challenge here, held 35,000 men but had some 50,000 registered from there and assigned to other Work Camps in the area. After capture Frank was recorded at the following camps: 23rd of June 1917 at Dulmen, 11th Aug 1917 at Limburg and 24th of November 1917 at Hameln.
Hameln was a parent camp in X Corps administrative zone and had many attached work camps. Kr. Gifhorn may have been home to one of the attached work camps. There was a PoW camp in Kreis Gifhorn in WW1, 1.7 km down the "Lagerweg" in Rádersloh on the south side ( coordinates 52.715673 10.382309 )
The postcard photographs were taken by a local photographer 'Frau Anna Niewerth, Gamsen kastoft, Kr Gifhorn'.
The camp was divided by a barbed wire fence. The figures on the right of the fence are possibly Russian prisoners with British on the left. Spaced out above the barbed-wire mesh are several strands of wire, which appear to be electrified!
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254029 Pte. James Moore 8th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles My father, James Moore was born in 1884. He served in the Royal Irish Rifles and was a prisoner of war in Kriegsgefangenen Lager, Hameln, Hannover Germany.
I have a photo dated 28th January 1917 sent from the prison at Christmas time.
The photo includes various soldiers in an assortment of uniform garments and from lots of different countries by the style of the clothing.
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252975 Pte James Bennett 2nd Btn. South Lancashire Regiment James Bennett was held as a POW in Hameln, Germany during the War.
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252303 Pte. George Hill 2nd Btn. Durham Light Infantry George Hill was taken POW in 1914 in Lille, according to the Red Cross records he was a POW in Hameln in February 1915. He returned to Jarrow when the war ended and later went on the Jarrow March.
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244417 Pte. Fred Atherall 2nd Btn. East Kent Regiment Freddy Atherall was captured on 26th of May 1915 at Wittes Poort Farm, during the 2nd Battle of Ypres, Battle of Bellewaarde Ridge, after his battalion made an unsuccessful attempt to counterattack the Germans.
Fred was held at Hamelin, Germany.
A friend of Fred's recieved a picture of a few prisoners of war in March 1918. Fred was shown alive and well. An article was placed in Kent and Sussex Courier on Friday 29th of March 1918.
Fred was released and returned to England during 1918. He never married and died in Saffron Walden, Essex in 1956 aged 63. Fred also had three brothers in WW1, two of whom are commemorated in Langton Green, Kent.
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