George F Sadler, 29925. Uniform I.D please?

[Sam_martin82]

Thanks SPOF. Interesting that there were 2 George Sadler's in the Hampshire Regiment. I didn't think Sadler was too common a name. Small world ay.

Thanks Flntwich. A few more pieces added to the puzzle. Cheers

[apwright]

I count 28 names: 8 Italian, 7 Russian, 3 French, 2 Serbian, 2 British (tho' one sounds very French!), 2 German women, 2 German men, and 1 of unidentified nationality.

Looks very much like the inmates + guards + cooks/washerwomen of a barrack hut at a POW camp. And Lamsdorf/Łambinowice fits the bill nicely as it's only 11 km down the road from Tillowitz/Tułowice where

the women are from. The two chaps front row centre are probably the German guards.

Here are the names, as far as I can make them out - just in case someone googles them one day...

David Francesco - Palermo
Cav[aliere = cavalryman] Mario de Bernardi - Napoli
Ferlizzi, Felice - Montefiascone ([in the Province of] Roma)
Di Peri, Calogero - Marineo (Palermo)
Sartinana, Ambrogio - Masate (Milano)
Ugo Lamburini - Ascoli Piceno (Italia)
Mark. ?Tersan - Odessa, Novoselskaya 40
André Larroque - Français
Georges Noël - Français
Carlo Tellini - Pisa (Italia)
Henry Contant - Franz[ösisch = French]
Giuseppe Colambini - ?Pianibino (Pisa)
Samuel Glückmann (Russe [Russian])
Kolodarski, Solomon (Russe)
Eliasch Litt (Russe)
A. Klaczynski (Pole)
С. Дьятковъ - Москва [s. Dyatkov - Moscow]
Н. Лившицъ [N. Livshits] - Odessa
Radowan Boschkowic [bošković] (Serbisch)
Живдин Стојадиновић [Živdin Stojadinović, Serbian]
Михаилъ Жебранъ - Федосово Шацкого Тамбовской губр. [Mikhail Zhebran - Fyodosovo in the district of Shatsk in Tambov Governorate]
Frau Anna Hunder - Tillowitz, Kreis [district of] Falkenberg
Marta Przybilla - Tillowitz, Krs. Falkenberg O/S [Ober-Schlesien = Upper Silesia]
Hans Roth[?e]bein - Breslau V, Augustastr[aße] 15
John Wynn - Engl[isch]
Adolphe Dufour - Engl.

August Köhne - Barmen, Heubruch 18
Robert Brandely

Adrian

[Sam_martin82]

Thankyou so much Afrian

That's brilliant. Its great to be able to put abut of history behind the photographs. I know my Dad will be interested.

I now need to work out where my Great Grandfather was captured, how far he travelled to the camp and by what means.

Sam

Edited 8 July , 2014 by Sam_martin82

[Guest davidhole1]

Having just found your postings I hope this may help some of you in your research :-

My Cousin Herbert Kinsman 1898-1918 died in 1918 and from government records it appeared he died in Flanders, in fact, from the UK, Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects, 1901-1929 ( available on Ancestry) he died in Lamsdorf POW camp .The details follow in case they are of interest:-

Per the UK, Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects, 1901-1929 ( on Ancestry) Herbert Harry Kinsman died in Lamsdorf .per the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website :-

Rank: Private
Service No: 42388
Date of Death: 30/10/1918
Age: 20
Regiment/Service: Yorkshire Regiment 12th Bn.
Grave Reference: XVII. A. 3.
Cemetery: BERLIN SOUTH-WESTERN CEMETERY
Additional Information: Son of Henry and Thirza Kinsman, of 7, Strand, Bideford, Devon

In 1922-23 it was decided that the graves of Commonwealth servicemen who had died all over Germany should be brought together into four permanent cemeteries. Berlin South-Western was one of those chosen and in 1924-25, graves were brought into the cemetery from 146 burial grounds in eastern Germany.

Among the cemeteries from which graves were brought to Berlin South-Western Cemetery was:

LAMSDORF PRISONERS OF WAR CEMETERY, in Schlesien (Silesia), which contained the graves of 81 soldiers from the United Kingdom, one from Australia and one from New Zealand, who died in 1917-1919 (it was used for French burials in 1870-71).

A cursory search of the UK Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects, 1901-1929 has identified the following UK soldiers who died at Lamsdorf

Name:

Walter Barker

Gender:

Male

Death Date:

22 Oct 1918

Death Place:

P of Wt Host Lamsdorf

Rank:

Private

Regiment:

Shropt L Inft

Regimental Number:

35722

Name:

John Samual Bevans

Gender:

Male

Death Date:

16 Oct 1918

Death Place:

Lamsdorf

Rank:

Driver

Regiment:

RFA 22 Brigade

Regimental Number:

181018

Name:

Ernest Cant

Gender:

Male

Death Date:

24 Oct 1918

Death Place:

Lamsdorf

Rank:

Private

Regiment:

Durham Light Infantry

Regimental Number:

39684

Name:

Harry Coggins

Gender:

Male

Death Date:

24 Oct 1918

Death Place:

Lamsdorf PO War

Rank:

Sapper

Regiment:

Royal Engineers

Regimental Number:

159025

Name:

Robert Fawcett

Gender:

Male

Death Date:

22 Oct 1918

Death Place:

Lamsdorf

Rank:

Sapper

Regiment:

Royal Engineers

Regimental Number:

459291

Name:

M A Frisby

Gender:

Male

Death Date:

20 Oct 1918

Death Place:

PGW Hos Lamsdorf

Rank:

Private

Regiment:

1st Lincolns

Regimental Number:

52109

Name:

Frederick James Cooke

Gender:

Male

Death Date:

3 Nov 1918

Death Place:

Lamsdorf

Rank:

Private

Regiment:

Yorkshire Regiment

Regimental Number:

33919

Name:

Win Henry Cooper

Gender:

Male

Death Date:

16 Oct 1918

Death Place:

Lamsdorf

Rank:

Private

Regiment:

King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry

Regimental Number:

37065

Name:

Harry Furness

Gender:

Male

Death Date:

22 Oct 1918

Death Place:

Lamsdorf Germany

Rank:

Private

Regiment:

MGC 50th Bttn

Regimental Number:

133672

Name:

Alfred Hopley

Gender:

Male

Death Date:

18 Nov 1918

Death Place:

Lamsdorf Germany

Rank:

Private

Regimental Number:

119977

Name:

Walter Charles Hughes

Gender:

Male

Death Date:

15 Nov 1918

Death Place:

Lamsdorf

Rank:

Acting Corporal

Regiment:

King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry

Regimental Number:

17169

Name:

Francis Meshach Jowett

Gender:

Male

Death Date:

28 Oct 1918

Death Place:

Lamsdorf

Rank:

Private

Regiment:

Yorkshire Regiment

Regimental Number:

202703

Name:

Kenneth Lovatt Lovatt

Gender:

Male

Death Date:

5 Dec 1918

Death Place:

Lamsdorf

Rank:

Private

Regiment:

Northumberland Fusiliers

Regimental Number:

65586

Name:

Ewart Blake Richardson

Gender:

Male

Death Date:

22 Oct 1918

Death Place:

Lamsdorf

Rank:

Private

Regiment:

9th R Sussex

Regimental Number:

G/18799

Name:

Samuel Thedore Shailer

Gender:

Male

Death Date:

2 Oct 1918

Death Place:

Lamsdorf

Rank:

Private

Regiment:

7 Bedford

Regimental Number:

33769

Name:

Henry Abraham Stubbings

Gender:

Male

Death Date:

27 Oct 1918

Death Place:

Lamsdorf

Rank:

Private

Regiment:

Gloucestershire Regiment

Regimental Number:

34107

Name:

Alfred Wright

Gender:

Male

Death Date:

10 Oct 1918

Death Place:

Lamsdorf

Rank:

Private

Regiment:

14/Glouc Regiment

Regimental Number:

25608

[findingmypast]

Sam martin....I wrote to Switzerland requesting info on Italian pow ww1 and ww2 a couple of years ago but never heard a thing.

where could I write again, this time hoping for a reply?