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Schneidemühl / Schneidemuehl Prison Camp, Posen, West Prussia (now Pila, Poland) Memorial 1916 (33 names/units)
Schneidemühl / Schneidemuehl Prison Camp, Posen, West Prussia (now Pila, Poland) Memorial 1916 (33 names/units)
(Front panel) FOR GOD KING AND COUNTRY / THIS MEMORIAL/ WAS PLACED HERE BY COMRADES 1st JULY 1916 / SCHNEIDEMÜHL / +SCOTS GUARDS+ / Pte J. BUCHANAN / Pte W. CURL / Pte W. SHAW / Pte A. HANDLEY / Pte S. HAYLOR / Pte A. PURVER / Pte A. MARKLAND / Pte E. MELLOR / Pte A. ROSS Pte J. CUTHILL / Pte F. WHITE / +COLDSTREAM GUARDS+ / Pte H. BROWNE / Pte H. BOLAM / Pte A. CRABTREE / Pte P. (J.G.) JACKSON / Pte W. YATES / Pte H. PHILLIPS / Cpl J. BULLEN / Pte W. STIMPSON / +BLACK WATCH / Pte H. DEVINE / GLOUCESTER REGT+ / Pte E. MONK / +WELCH REGIMENT+ / Pte CANTRILL / DIED AT / "HOHENSALZA" / Pte G. BANKS / DIED AT / "COLOGNE" / (Left panel) YORKSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY K.O. / Pte O. CLOUGH / ROYAL SCOT'S (15th Batn) Pte R. CHISHOLM(E) / WELCH REGIMENT (2nd Batn) Lc/Cpl D.C. PRITCHARD / ROYAL FUSILIERS / (1st/2nd Batn) Cpl M.W. SMITH / (24th Batn) Pte B.J. MAHONEY / (Right Panel) SOUTH WALES BORDERERS / (1st Batn) Pte R. ISAAC / NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS / (9th Batn) Pte W. KENNY / LOYAL NORTH LANCASHIRE / (1st/5th Batn) Pte W. BAMBER / (1st/4th Batn) Pte J. MOUNSEY / KING'S LIVERPOOL'S / (1st/8th Batn) Pte G. REEVES / NOTES: WORK IN PROGRESS ON CLOSURE OF PROJECT MARCH 2019. This Community includes 235164 Pte William Oscar Davies, Yorkshire Regiment who is known to have engraved the names, and possibly additional detail, on the 1916 Memorial during 1917-1918. His entry also serves as a record of the development of the Memorial. The original sculptor of the original Memorial is as yet unknown.
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Died 1915
British Army 8474 Guardsman Scots Guards
British Army 8474 Private Scots Guards 1st Battalion
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Died 1916
British Army 9368 Private Welsh Regiment 2nd Battalion
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Born 1894
Died 1918
British Army 36851 Private Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
British Army 36851 Private The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment 1/5th Battalion
More about William Bamber -
Died 1915
British Army 8032 Private Coldstream Guards 1st Battalion
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Died 1915
British Army 6362 Private Scots Guards 1st Battalion
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Died 1918
British Army S/14230 Private Seaforth Highlanders
British Army 114852 Private Labour Corps
British Army 59198 Private Northumberland Fusiliers 9th Battalion
More about William Kenny -
Born 1883
Died 1915
British Army 6118 Private Scots Guards 1st Battalion
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Born 1890
Died 1918
British Army 4525 Private Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
British Army 201762 Private Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
British Army 201762 Private The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment 1st/4th Battalion
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Died 1915
British Army 8567 Private Scots Guards 1st Battalion
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Born 1878
Died 1915
British Army 6245 Private Gloucestershire Regiment 1st Battalion
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Born 1887
Died 1918
British Army 8443 Private Welsh Regiment 2nd Battalion
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Died 1915
British Army 7108 Guardsman Coldstream Guards
British Army 7108 Private Coldstream Guards 1st Battalion
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Died 1918
British Army 307362 Private Liverpool Regiment 1/8th Battalion
More about George Reeves -
Born 1880
Died 1961
British Army 6623 Private Yorkshire Regiment 2/4th Battalion
British Army 235164 Private Yorkshire Regiment 4th Battalion
More about William Oscar Davies -
Died 1915
British Army 7470 Guardsman Scots Guards
British Army 7470 Private Scots Guards
More about William Curl -
Died 1917
British Army 5891 Private Welsh Regiment 2nd Battalion
British Army 5891 Private Welsh Regiment 2nd Battalion
More about George Banks -
Born 1878
Died 1918
British Army 30428 Private Royal Scots 15th Battalion
More about Roderick Chisholm -
Died 1915
British Army 8972 Guardsman Coldstream Guards
British Army 8972 Private Coldstream Guards 1st Battalion
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Died 1918
British Army SPTS/3040 Private Royal Fusiliers 24th Battalion
More about Bernard James Mahoney