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Langensalza POW Camp
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Those known to have been held in
Langensalza POW Camp
during the Great War 1914-1918.
- Bate Leonard. Pte. Leicestershire Regiment
- Bown Thomas Harry. Pte York and Lancaster Regiment
- Chell Leonard. Pte. Northumberland Fusiliers
- Coe Lawrence Gordon. Sgt. Ox and Bucks Light Infantry
- Coe Lawrence Gordon. Sgt. Lincolnshire Regiment
- Dalton Charles Harry. Pte. Leicestershire Regiment
- Gingell Reginald Ernest. Pte. Middlesex Regiment
- Goodwin Albert. Pte. Royal Berkshire Regiment
- McConnachie John. Cpl. Gordon Highlanders
- McGuigan Samuel. Pte. Royal Irish Rifles
- Phillips George Henry. Pte. South Wales Borderers
- Wootton Charles. Pte. Wiltshire Regiment
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Pte. Leonard Chell 1/6th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
Leonard Chell was a private in the 1st Platoon, A Company, 1/6th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers. He was reported as Missing In Action on 30th of April 1918. He was taken prisoner of war, aged 19, from the Western Front, unwounded, on 27th of May 1918 at Roncy, and went to Langensalza Camp, Germany.He lived in Staffordshire all his life, and died at the age of 86. He was quite a character to listen to. He was an insurance agent and knew how to talk to people and to hold their attention.
Celia Lindley
Pte Thomas Harry Bown 10th Battalion York and Lancaster Regiment (d.6th June 1917)
Private T.H.Brown died of wounds received in battle on the 6th June 1917 in Langensalza POW Camp and is buried in grave 904 in the camp cemetery.Howard Morris Loo
Pte. George Henry Phillips South Wales Borderers
George Phillips was born on 10th of August 1886 in Clerkenwell, London, son of George William Phillips and Louisa Elizabeth (nee Ashby). He was a pre War soldier who joined the South Wales Borderers in 1906 and had previously been posted to South Africa (Johannesberg) and India (Quetta and Karachi). He left the army in 1913 after serving for 7 years, but as he was on the Reserve he was recalled as soon as war was declared.He was taken prisoner of war on 21st of October 1914, captured during the First Battle of Ypres at Poelcappelle. He remained a POW until being repatriated in January 1919. He was at Gottingen and Langenzelza POW camps. He picked up some German language and acted as an interpreter for some other other prisoners. He never spoke of his treatment, but for one incident, he was made to stand outside for hours in the snow. He died in 1961.
Janet Sutton
Sgt. Lawrence Gordon Coe 10th Btn. A Coy. Lincolnshire Regiment
My Grandfather Lawrence Coe initially joined up in 1914 as a private in the Ox and Bucks rising to the rank of sergeant. At some point he was transferred to the Lincolnshire Regiment as a sergeant. The only information that I have came from recollections of my father and research that I have undertaken.He was wounded in the head during action on 28th of April 1917 when he was a Sergeant with A Company 10th Lincolns, at Roeux where he was taken prisoner and sent to Langensalza Pow camp he was, as a result of his wound, ultimately interned in Switzerland. He lost his left eye as a result of the wound and suffered throughout the remainder of his life with head pains.
His name is recorded in the publication produced at the end of the war of all personnel of London County Council who served during The Great War.
Geoff Coe
Cpl. John McConnachie 6th Battalion Gordon Highlanders (d.10th June 1917)
John McConnachie arrived in France on the 2nd of December 1915. He was captured at Arras after being shot in the leg and taken to Langensalza POW Camp in Germany where he died on 10th of June 1917.Jean Simpson
Pte. Charles Wootton 2nd Battalion Wiltshire Regiment
Very little was known about my grandad Charles Wootton until I researched him. I do know he enlisted at Devizes, on the 14th of January 1913. After a period of training he embarked for France with the Battalion on 5th of October 1914, being part of the BEF or known best as the contemptible army.He disembarked at Zeebrugge in Belgium on the 7th of October, the the Battalion who marched or in some cases travelled by bus to the Ypres. They left Ypres on the 15th October headed for the Menin Road where they rested for the night.
Next day they headed for the woods near Becelare, and after several days of bloody fighting, Charles was captured on the 24th October. He was in detained by German forces at the camp Gottingen and listed there by the Red Cross on the 13th January 1915,then listed again at Langensalza camp on the 23rd Feb 1917.
Eventually he was repatriated as a prisoner of war at Leith 31st of Dec 1918.
Charles went on to marry Kate and had six children, my Dad being one of them. He had a love for cricket & every Sunday as a child we'd see him in his chair at South Wilts Cricket Club in Salisbury. He never talked about the war, but my Auntie said he sat outside with old comrades playing old military tunes through their hands & guessing what they were and talking about old times. He passed away in 1969, a lovely man. He was awarded three medals, the 1914 Star, British War Medal and the Victory Medal.
Howard Wootton
Pte. Reginald Ernest Gingell 2nd Battalion Middlesex Regiment
Reginald Gingell was taken prisoner at Pontavert on 27th of May 1918 and held in forced labour gang on the Western Front until moved to POW Camp Langensalza in mid Sept 1918. Repatriated by the Red Cross in January 1919 from Hamburg, he was suffering from clinical malnutrition and starvation oedema. They were kept on the Calcutta Mutiny diet to prevent death from over feeding.He arrived back in London to a formal reception at Charing Cross station and he absconded back home to Tooting. He hadn't a penny on him and took the tram but nobody told him to get off. He arrived at the front door in a cardboard uniform and newspaper wrapped round his feet. His mother stripped him in the garden and burnt everything.
He had to go the St George's Hospital, Tooting every day to see the doctor and they would give him pills which he would put down the drain on the way out. For several weeks he would sit by the fire in the kitchen and refuse to move out of the chair, eating every scrap of food that came past him. He suffered from syncope and passed out on several occasions. For this reason he was initially given a pension which was then withdrawn as he recovered. He was awarded the silver war badge which he wore proudly in many photos in the family album.
Louisa Gingell
Pte. Samuel McGuigan Royal Irish Rifles
Samuel McGuigan, my Granddad's brother, was wounded in the back on 1 Jul 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme whilst serving in the 36th Ulster Division. Soldiers in that division had been initially successful in their assault on the German lines before being retreat, coming under fire from British and German artillery and German machine guns. Between Dec 1916 and Dec 1918, when he was repatriated to the UK, Samuel was incarcerated in Langensalza POW camp.
Sgt. Lawrence Gordon Coe Ox and Bucks Light Infantry
Lawrence Coe served with the Ox and Bucks Light Infantry.Geoff Coe
Pte. Leonard Bate 1st Btn. D Coy Leicestershire Regiment
Len Bate was posted to France in autumn of 1914. He was 26 years old. On 21st October, the 1st Battalion Leicestershire Regiment arrived at the line near Armentieres to relieve the 1st Battalion West Yorks.Len, a member of D Company, was wounded and taken prisoner in the attack on the level crossing south of La Houssoie station on 25th October. He was to spend the next four years as a POW, initially at Cassel and from December 1916 at Langensalza.
After the war he returned to his wife and daughter in Leicestershire, moved to Staffordshire, where his son was born in 1921, before immigrating to Ontario, Canada where he became a successful businessman and well known amateur artist. He made regular return visits to his family in Leicester until his death in 1971.
Nicola Bate
Pte. Albert Goodwin 2nd Btn. Royal Berkshire Regiment
Albert Goodwin was gassed and taken prisoner in May 1918. He was taken to a camp at Langensalza in Germany and was put to work in the nearby Salt mines.Albert suffered for the rest of his life with severe chest issues but never complained or talked about what he had done or seen. It would appear that his service record was one of the many that were destroyed in WW2, so this is our way to ensure that his record is preserved.
Geoff
Pte. Charles Harry Dalton 8th Btn Leicestershire Regiment
My Father, Private Charles Harry Thomas Dalton, service No. 42130 was taken prisoner of war at Cormicy on 27th May 1918 and detained in Langensalza camp. I have his information from the International Red Cross. I would like to know if there is anymore information regarding his Army life, i.e when did he join up and where else did he serve?Robert Dalton
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