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Karlsruhe POW Camp



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There are:-1 items tagged Karlsruhe 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

Karlsruhe POW Camp

during the Great War 1914-1918.

  • Lunn James Joseph. 2nd Lt.
  • McCarter William Harold Raphael. Capt. Royal Army Medical Corps
  • Sperry John Alexander. 1Lt. 22nd Aero Squadron
  • Worrall Waide Reginald. 2nd Lt. West Yorkshire Regiment

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1Lt. John Alexander Sperry 22nd Aero Squadron

My Grandfather, Jack Sperry, was a 1st Lieutenant flying a Spad XIII for the American 22nd Aero Squadron. On 4th of October 1918, he was shot down over northeast France, survived the crash, and was taken prisoner by the German Army. He wrote extensively of his capture, how he was treated and places he was held. He wrote of his journey through Metz, Longwry, Stenay and eventually being held for a period of time in a castle at Montmedy. Ultimately he ended up at a p.o.w. camp in Karlsruhe, Germany.





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2nd Lt. James Joseph Lunn

James Lunn was taken prisoner on 31st of March 1918 and was incarcerated at Karlsruhe Camp.

Polly Webber




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2nd Lt. Waide Reginald Worrall 8th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment

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Reg Worrall was my father's brother-in-law. He volunteered at the outbreak of war and served as a stretcher bearer with 1/3rd West Riding Field Ambulance until 1917 when he was selected for officer training.

He became a 2nd Lt in 8th Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment. He was posted to France in April 1918 and transferred to the 5th DLI and saw action with 151st Trench Mortar Battery. On 27th May he was wounded in both arms and both legs and captured near Craonne. After a spell in hospital in Germany he was transferred to Karlsruhe POW camp. He was then removed to Kampstigall POW camp near Konigsburg on the Baltic Sea. He was repatriated to England in 1919.

Reg standing left as a POW





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Capt. William Harold Raphael McCarter Royal Army Medical Corps

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William Harold Raphael McCarter was my paternal grandfather. He served during the Great War as a doctor. He was captured during the Spring offensive at Epehy in March 1918 and spent the rest of the war as a prisoner. The main POW camps where he was held were Rastatt, Karlsruhe and eventually Graudenz in Poland. I have transcribed his diary which is now very fragile, and I also have a book of cartoons painted by one of the officers in his battalion before their capture. I am putting everything together in a book and am still searching for relevant pictures of the POW camps and my grandfather.

Tess Noble






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