J T Gray Posted 21 February , 2008 Share Posted 21 February , 2008 Here is a complementary German band in Wahn camp ...and if the expressions of the chap leading them and the little boy are anything to go by, they are making a horrible noise! Adrian (sorry, Egbert, but they both look as though they have been forced to be there!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 21 February , 2008 Author Share Posted 21 February , 2008 (sorry, Egbert, but they both look as though they have been forced to be there!) Adrian that's the way it is! For whatever purposes they had been taken- either by order or simply by an agressive photographer (I know several of them still exist today) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 23 February , 2008 Author Share Posted 23 February , 2008 PoWs in a hospital barrack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 24 February , 2008 Author Share Posted 24 February , 2008 Hospital Then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 25 February , 2008 Author Share Posted 25 February , 2008 Same hospital in the 20s/30s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cockney tone Posted 25 February , 2008 Share Posted 25 February , 2008 Egbert, love the picture at post 229, especially the look on the young lads face! Thanks again for sharing all these photos. Regards, Scottie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 26 February , 2008 Author Share Posted 26 February , 2008 Thanks Scottie This is the "Now" view of the hospital grounds, from approximately the standpoint of the flag pole, visible in pic #234. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 28 February , 2008 Author Share Posted 28 February , 2008 Meanwhile I have exchanged 10 blurred pictures against higher resolution clear pictures Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 29 February , 2008 Author Share Posted 29 February , 2008 I received a new batch of Wahn PoW pictures and have to admit, that's why there is no logical order of themes/subjects possible anymore. So please excuse the torn apart or repeating themes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 29 February , 2008 Author Share Posted 29 February , 2008 British PoWs in the shoemaker shop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 1 March , 2008 Author Share Posted 1 March , 2008 1914 French PoW's- working party cutting wood Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 4 March , 2008 Author Share Posted 4 March , 2008 Medical instructions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete1052 Posted 4 March , 2008 Share Posted 4 March , 2008 Great work Egbert, thanks for doing what you're doing. I was glad to be able to post the Siegburg stuff about 1945 and double-glad that you weren't offended by it. The Rathaus didn't respond to my email but it's Siegburg's loss if they don't preserve that bit of history about the town. Maybe you could print it and deposit it in a library there. It has unit identifications, dates, names, and locations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 5 March , 2008 Author Share Posted 5 March , 2008 Thanks Pete. The next one shows French colonial troops in Wahn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 7 March , 2008 Author Share Posted 7 March , 2008 Zouave arabs lining up in front of the kitchen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 8 March , 2008 Author Share Posted 8 March , 2008 French PoWs lining up at their kitchen facility Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saberhagen427 Posted 8 March , 2008 Share Posted 8 March , 2008 Maybe Gavin Robinson (post# 82) has a picture of Brit Wahn PoWs and may recognize the one or other chap. BOQ= Bachelor Officer Quarters Just caught up with this thread. So many amazing photos - thanks again Egbert. My great-grandfather was only at Wahn for 2 weeks at most. He was captured by 77th RIR near Gommecourt on 6th December 1916, wrote a postcard home from Wahn on 20th December, then wrote another one from Berlin Alexandrinenstrasse hospital on 21st December. As he was wounded when he was captured and was kept in hospital in Berlin until February 1917 it's likely that he spent all of his time at Wahn in the hospital and didn't do any work. I don't think any patients in the hospital photo look like him. This is him (probably taken before he was captured, but sent home afterwards). And this is the card he sent from Wahn. We don't have any photos from Wahn showing any of the other prisoners (plenty from Cottbus, but that's another story). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 8 March , 2008 Author Share Posted 8 March , 2008 Thanx for the information and interesting postcard. At least you have a sense now of how he could have been accomodated in the PoW hospital in Wahn. The postcard resembles the ones my Granduncle sent home as a PoW from a French camp. They must have been normed by the Red Cross. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 15 March , 2008 Author Share Posted 15 March , 2008 I suspect another kitchen barrack and less likely living quarters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 16 March , 2008 Author Share Posted 16 March , 2008 PoW camp HQ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 21 March , 2008 Author Share Posted 21 March , 2008 HQ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 22 March , 2008 Author Share Posted 22 March , 2008 PoW Wahn South Camp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 24 March , 2008 Author Share Posted 24 March , 2008 "Koelner Jungs". PoW guards made up of elderly Koelsch (Cologne) originals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 29 March , 2008 Author Share Posted 29 March , 2008 This is a view towards Nordlager after it was rebuilt with then modern buildings in the 1930s. All wooden barracks are gone and substituted with stone built barracks (see the 2-story bldgs on ex Nordlager grounds in ca 300 meters distance) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irishmen1916 Posted 29 March , 2008 Share Posted 29 March , 2008 Hi Egbert, I have just read your post from start 2006 to today, great stuff Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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