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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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