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Heilsberg POW Camp If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. Want to know more about Heilsberg POW Camp? There are:-1 items tagged Heilsberg POW Camp available in our Library   These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Great War. Those known to have been held in Heilsberg POW Camp during the Great War 1914-1918. Drope H.. Pte. Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry Pattison John George. Pte. Durham Light Infantry Shall Joseph James. Rflmn. Kings Royal Rifle Corps All names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed, please. Add a Name to this List Records from Heilsberg POW Camp other sources. The Wartime Memories Project is the original WW1 and WW2 commemoration website. 1st of September 2023 marks 24 years since the launch of the Wartime Memories Project. Thanks to everyone who has supported us over this time. Want to find out more about your relative's service? Want to know what life was like during the Great War? Our Library contains many many diary entries, personal letters and other documents, most transcribed into plain text. Looking for help with Family History Research?    Please see Family History FAQ's Please note: We are unable to provide individual research. Can you help? The free to access section of The Wartime Memories Project website is run by volunteers and funded by donations from our visitors. If the information here has been helpful or you have enjoyed reaching the stories please conside making a donation, no matter how small, would be much appreciated, annually we need to raise enough funds to pay for our web hosting or this site will vanish from the web. If you enjoy this site please consider making a donation. Announcements 18th April 2024     Please note we currently have a massive backlog of submitted material, our volunteers are working through this as quickly as possible and all names, stories and photos will be added to the site. If you have already submitted a story to the site and your UID reference number is higher than 263925 your submission is still in the queue, please do not resubmit. Wanted: Digital copies of Group photographs, Scrapbooks, Autograph books, photo albums, newspaper clippings, letters, postcards and ephemera relating to the Great War. If you have any unwanted photographs, documents or items from the First or Second World War, please do not destroy them. The Wartime Memories Project will give them a good home and ensure that they are used for educational purposes. Please get in touch for the postal address, do not sent them to our PO Box as packages are not accepted. We are now on Facebook. Like this page to receive our updates, add a comment or ask a question. If you have a general question please post it on our Facebook page. World War 1 One ww1 wwII greatwar great battalion regiment artillery Did you know? We also have a section on World War Two. and a Timecapsule to preserve stories from other conflicts for future generations. 248320 Rflmn. Joseph James Shall 16th Btn. Kings Royal Rifle Corps (d.8th October 1918) My great uncle was Joseph Shall (my maternal great Uncle). He may have been captured during The Defence for Neuve Eligais in April 1918. His sister (my grandmother) lost two brothers, Joseph who died 8th of October 1918 in Lizbark Heilsberg 39 POW camp and Henry Charles Shall killed in action in 1917. I would love to find any more information about either Joseph, or his 16th Btn (Church Lads Brigade) or the Heilsberg Prisoner of war camp. David Irwin Add to this record. 226735 Pte. H. Drope Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry Pte Harry Drope was a POW at Heilsberg. He walked 500 miles to Russia on after escaping on 13 June 1918. Add to this record. 215178 Pte. John George Pattison 1/5th Btn. Durham Light Infantry (d.4th Dec 1917) John George Pattinson served in the 1st/5th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry and died in Heilsberg POW Camp on the 4th December 1917 aged 24. A lot of prisoners were transferred to that camp after the Battle of Cambrai in 1917. The camp had a large hospital nearby. He is remembered at the Monkton Memorial, St Paul's Church and the Berlin South-Western Cemetery, Heilsberg POW Cemetery Memorial. John was the son of Mr and Mrs G Pattison, 2 East Grove, High Ford, Hylton Road, Sunderland. He was married to Elizabeth Pattinson of South Lodge, East Jarrow. Vin Mullen Add to this record. Recomended Reading. Available at discounted prices.