Pompier Camp Kemmel

[Guest john larmouth]

My grandfather is buried in Kemmel Chateu Military Cemetry. The War Diary (225th Field Company Royal Engineers) record that he was killed by a German Bomb dropped on Pompier Camp on 15.10.17 and buried the following day. Whilst presumably Pompier Camp was in the vicinity of Kemmel I am attempting to to trace its exact location, so far without success. Any suggestions would be appreciated.JOHN

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Just south of La Clytte on the road to Kemmel ( 'Kim Road' - now the N304). See below...

Dave

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[Guest john larmouth]

Many thanks for this information Dave. I now have the exact time 7.10pm on 15.10.17 when my grandfather was killed in a German air raid on Pompier

Camp. The details of your information on location now mean that I can probably place his exact location of death to within a hundred yards or so as I know he was in a hut when killed. I feel another visit to Flanders beckons this year.

I think such detail on the death of a "other ranks" He was a second corpral in the Royal Engineers, is quite unusual

[Guest grahampc1272collins]

Hi John

My grandfather Herbert Saunders was injured at Pompier Camp on 13/10/17 and died of his injuries on 15/10/17. I have a copy of the Captains war diary for this day obtained by my father, Herbert's son, from the Publics Record Office reference WO95/2576. A detailed map of the time was also sent to my father of which I have but it is A3 and I cannot copy it for you currently.

In the diary above the detail of my Grandfather is reference to your Grandfather Corp. WG Larmouth killed this day together with 3 others, Clarke, Blair, Saunders, 24 were wounded.

All details were obtained from Public Records Office, Kew

Hi John

My grandfather Herbert Saunders was injured at Pompier Camp on 13/10/17 and died of his injuries on 15/10/17. I have a copy of the Captains war diary for this day obtained by my father, Herbert's son, from the Publics Record Office reference WO95/2576. A detailed map of the time was also sent to my father of which I have but it is A3 and I cannot copy it for you currently.

In the diary above the detail of my Grandfather is reference to your Grandfather Corp. WG Larmouth killed this day together with 3 others, Clarke, Blair, Saunders, 24 were wounded.

All details were obtained from Public Records Office, Kew

John, further to the above, I am visiting my fathers grave in October this year and prior to my fathers death we also visited the grave at Kemmel and traced Pompier Camp. Best regards