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Camps of known Royal Naval Division Prisoners of War, the descriptions of the camps appear in Mrs. Pope-Hennessy's The Main Prison Camps in Germany and Austria.
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| Berlin |
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| The capital of Prussia (pop. 3,500,000), the third largest city in B in. Europe. Several prison camps are established in the neighbourhood of Berlin, but none in the city itself. There is one large hospital. The Alexandrinenstrasse Lazaret, a special lazaret for prisoners of war estab- lished in the barracks of the 1st Guard Dragoons; these barracks are built round a yard, and four wooden huts have been added to the accom- modation in the barrack-yard. There is also the Stadtvogtei, a prison to which British civilians from Ruhleben are sometimes sent. Guard Corps.
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George Leask |
| b. 21 June 1891 |
| Shetland |
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| RND 16 September 1914 |
| Hawke Seaman PO/4140/A |
| POW Antwerp |
| DOD 14 June 1916 |
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| Cassel |
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This town (pop. 153,000) is the headquarters of the b 11. nth Army Corps. The camp is place! on a hill overlooking the Fulda Valley, one mile from Niederzwehren, a suburb of Cassel. Barracks of wood accommodating some 20,000. Prisoners employed in factories and work- shops. American prisoners here.
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James Oak |
| b. 04 January 1898 |
| Hastings |
| Watchmaker |
| RND 18 January 1916 |
| Drake A.B. Z/494 |
| POW 02 September 1918 |
| 63rd RN Cadre |
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Bright Fraser |
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| Artist's Rifles |
| Private 760984 |
| POW 30 December 1917 |
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| Doeberitz |
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A large camp eight miles from Berlin in which prisoners of the Naval Division captured at Antwerp in 1914 were imprisoned. It is described as the Aldershot of Berlin and is close to an important military training centre.There is a Y.M.C.A. hut here. Guard Corps.
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David E. Bain |
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| Sheffield |
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| RND 17 September 1914 |
| Collingwood 2nd STO PO/SS/115539 |
| POW Antwerp |
| Interned in Holland 04 March 1918 |
| Sea Service 18 March 1919 |
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Frederick J. Berry |
| b. 01 December 1893 |
| Bristol |
| Clerk |
| RND 22 August 1914 |
| Collingwood A.B. 3/1025 |
| POW Antwerp |
| Demobilised 16 February 1919 |
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Simon G. Bloom |
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| Glasgow |
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| RND 17 September 1914 |
| Benbow |
| 1st STO PO/286863, B/2269 R.F.R. |
| POW Antwerp |
| Sea Service 07 March 1919 |
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Herbert W. Brigden |
| b. 18 May 1893 |
| Ilford, E. |
| Clerk |
| RND 22 August 1914 |
| Collingwood |
| A.B. 5/2985 |
| POW Antwerp |
| Demobilised 18 March 1919 |
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Theodore Y. Dobson |
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| Walmer |
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| RND |
| Collingwood |
| Lieutenant |
| POW Antwerp |
| Transferred 30 November 1917 |
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Clifford C. Groom |
| b. 20 June 1890 |
| Hallam Street, W.C. |
| Traveller |
| RND 22 August 1914 |
| Collingwood A.B. 3/3595 |
| POW Antwerp |
| Demobilised 28 February 1919 |
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William G. E. Phillips |
| b. 02 April 1889 |
| Stoke Newington, N |
| Schoolmaster |
| RND 22 August 1914 |
| Benbow A.B. 1/3557 |
| POW Antwerp |
| DOD 24 December 1914 |
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Charles E. Riddle |
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| Hastings |
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| RND |
| Benbow Seaman PO/5451A |
| POW Antwerp |
| Demobilised 07 March 1919 |
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Albert Taylor |
| b. 15 April 1881 |
| Barnsley |
| Miner |
| RND 08 September 1914 |
| Hawke A.B. KW/704 |
| POW Antwerp |
| Demobilised 16 February 1919 |
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Cecil A. Tooke |
| b. 22 November 1880 |
| Old Kent Road, S.E. |
| Watermarking Artist |
| RND 22 August 1914 |
| Hawke A.B. 2/3321 |
| POW Antwerp |
| Demobilised 02 March 1919 |
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| Dolmen |
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A small town (pop. 7,500) with a castle surrounded by estates of the Duke of Croy-Diilmen, the centre of numerous working commandos.There is a large assembly camp placed on high heather ground five miles from the town.The barracks are good.7th Army Corps.
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Clarence W. Owen |
| b. 30 August 1894 |
| Mexborough (Yorkshire) |
| Miner |
| RND 13 October 1914 |
| Drake / Howe A.B. KW/551 |
| POW 30 December 1917 |
| Demobilised 13 February 1919 |
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| Friedrichsfeld |
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Sixty miles north of Cologne near Wesel. Capacity 35,000.?There is an open space in the centre of the camp for football and tennis; also gardens with flowerbeds between the barracks; large vegetable gardens and potato field run by the prisoners. It is the centre of many working commandos, mining and otherwise. It is also a postal station for a large number of prisoners who have never been in the camp itself.
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Horace W. Allen |
| b. 01 February 1887 |
| Attleborough (Norfolk) |
| Formerly Army Reserve |
| RND 21 June 1917 |
| Howe A.B. R/3763 |
| POW 24 March 1918 |
| Demobilised 17 April 1919 |
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John Green |
| b. 07 December 1895 |
| South Shields |
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| RND 02 January 1915 |
| Drake L.S. Z/2654 |
| POW 21 January 1918 |
| Demobilised 13 February 1919 |
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| Langensalza |
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A busy town (pop. 12,600) containing cloth and cotton factories.The camp was opened in 1914, and consists of hutments, each holding 250 men.Capacity,10,000. Centre of numerous working commandos. American prisoners here,11th Army Corps.
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Alfred W. N. Langrish |
| b. 18 October 1886 |
| Portslade (Sussex) |
| Labourer |
| RND 04 November 1914 |
| Collingwood / Hood A.B. Z/123 |
| POW 24 March 1918 |
| Demobilised 13 March 1919 |
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Ernest E. White |
| b. July 1898 |
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| DOW 15 September 1918 |
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| Limburg |
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An old cathedral town on the Lahn (pop. 10,500) of some importance in the Middle Ages. The prison camp near the town is celebrated as the place in which Irish prisoners were concentrated at Christmas, 1914, for the purpose of recruiting for the Irish Brigade. Now the centre of a number of invalid working camps and hospitals in occupied territory'; also the head camp for a certain number of men working in occupied territory. Capacity, 12,000. Limestone barracks. American prisoners here. 8th Army Corps.
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Ernest Shemeld |
| b. 06 September 1894 |
| Sheffield |
| Porter |
| RND 08 September 1914 |
| Collingwood / Howe / Hood A.B. KW/619 |
| POW 21 August 1918 |
| Demobilised 11 February 1919 |
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Dryden G.Young |
| b. 14 April 1895 |
| South Shields |
| Miner |
| RND 12 November 1914 |
| Collingwood / Hood A.B. Z/1716 |
| POW 30-31 December 1917 |
| Demobilised 05 February 1919 |
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| Wahn |
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Situated on rising ground twenty miles S.E. of Cologne. The camp,
which formerly was the Wahner Heide Artillery practice camp, lies in open country and forms a sort of loosely jointed village. It carries 35,000 men on its register and was formerly a parent camp for working camps in the district. Barracks are set aside for prisoners who have tried to cross the frontier. 8th Army Corps.
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Horace Smith |
| b. 19 November 1897 |
| Wellingborough |
| Rag Sorter |
| RND 24 October 1915 |
| Howe / Anson A.B. Z/3648 |
| POW 25 March 1918 |
| Demobilised 06 February 1919 |
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Samuel Treadwell |
| b. 09 June 1888 |
| Nuneaton |
| Wool Spinner |
| RND 02 November 1915 |
| Drake A.B. Z/3324 |
| POW 30 December 1917 |
| DOW 21 April 1918 |
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