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[loueire]

Hi,can anybody help please,my step-father's great uncle was called William Henry Williams,he was attached to the Yorkshire light infantry,he was supposed to have been a german POW for 4 and a half years,need help clarifying this.

Kind regards.

[Ed Woods]

Would you have his date of birth, where he was born and where he was living?

[kenf48]

There is a mic for William H Williams Pte 7794 Yorkshire Light Infantry

probably a pre war regular

entered theatre 26th October 1914

MIC is marked P of W

as above more info would make it easier

Suggest 2nd Bn as replacement part of 5th Division probably captured at Messines October 1914 but a Yorkshire Light Infantry expert would help you with that

Ken

[sotonmate]

loueire22

The National Archives have a series of documents which show the contents of an interview with a percentage of returning POWs. Your subject may or may not be one of them.

WO161/100 is part of the series. If you search on the Catalogue with WILLIAMS and WO161 there will be quite a few hits,some of which are multiple names within a single file,which would have to be opened to check the list. You may get to find a record,which would then have to be looked up insitu at Kew.

Sotonmate

[loueire]

loueire22

The National Archives have a series of documents which show the contents of an interview with a percentage of returning POWs. Your subject may or may not be one of them.

WO161/100 is part of the series. If you search on the Catalogue with WILLIAMS and WO161 there will be quite a few hits,some of which are multiple names within a single file,which would have to be opened to check the list. You may get to find a record,which would then have to be looked up insitu at Kew.

Sotonmate

Thankyou.

[loueire]

Would you have his date of birth, where he was born and where he was living?

Not at present,all i have is a name and photo.I am seeing my dad tomorrow,hopefully we can work out when he was born,i know he was born in Wales,should be able to find out where.

[loueire]

There is a mic for William H Williams Pte 7794 Yorkshire Light Infantry

probably a pre war regular

entered theatre 26th October 1914

MIC is marked P of W

as above more info would make it easier

Suggest 2nd Bn as replacement part of 5th Division probably captured at Messines October 1914 but a Yorkshire Light Infantry expert would help you with that

Ken

Thankyou,hopefully will have more details on him tomorrow.

[Ed Woods]

Not at present,all i have is a name and photo.I am seeing my dad tomorrow,hopefully we can work out when he was born,i know he was born in Wales,should be able to find out where.

Quick look on Ancestry shows over 100 sets of records of people called William H Williams! A date of birth or a year of birth might narrow the search down a bit