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Holzminden POW Camp If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. Want to know more about Holzminden POW Camp? There are:-1 items tagged Holzminden 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 Holzminden POW Camp during the Great War 1914-1918. Allen Joseph. Lt. Baker H. H.. Lt. Lancashire Fusiliers Blain Cecil. 2nd Lt. Bousfield J. K.. Lt. Chidson M. R.. 2/Lt. Gore MC. . Capt. Gray David. Capt. Kennard Caspar. 2nd Lt. Leggatt E. W.. Capt. Mortimer-Phelan . Lt. Purves Stanley. 2/Lt. Rathbone Charles. Col. Robinson VC. William Leefe. Shipwright A. T.. 2/Lt. Tullis J. N.. 2nd Lt. Walter MC MID. Joseph S.. Capt. Queen's Royal West Surrey Rgt. 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(d.21st May 1918) Captain Walter was a prisoner at Holzminden and Bad Colberg POW Camps. He was killed for escaping on 21st May 1918. He is buried in Neiderzwehen Cemetery, Kassel, grave III.N.3. Add to this record. 226809 2nd Lt. J. N. Tullis Lt Tullis escaped to Holland from Holzminden POW camp on the night of 23-24 July 1918. Add to this record. 226805 2/Lt. A. T. Shipwright Lt Shipwright, a prisoner in Holzminden POW camp, escaped but was recaptured. Add to this record. 226803 William Leefe Robinson VC (d.31st December 1918) William Leefe Robinson VC was a prisoner in Zorndorf and Holzminden POW Camps. Several times he tried to escape but was not successful. He was badly treated by the German guards. He died on 31st December 1918. Add to this record. 226800 Col. Charles Rathbone Colonel Rathbone was a prisoner at Holzminden and Schweidnitz POW Camps. He escaped from Holzminden on the night of 23-24 July 1918 and reached freedom in Holland. He had previously escaped from Schweidnitz. Colonel Rathbone was Senior British Officer at Holzminden. Add to this record. 226798 2/Lt. Stanley Purves Lt Purves escaped from Holzminden POW Camp to Holland on 23-24 April 1918. Add to this record. 226790 Lt. Mortimer-Phelan Lt Mortimer-Phelan escaped from Holzminden Camp, where he was being held as a POW. Add to this record. 226771 Capt. E. W. Leggatt Captain Leggatt was a prisoner in Holzminden POW camp. He escaped on the night of 23-24 July 1918 and reached freedom in Holland. Add to this record. 226768 2nd Lt. Caspar Kennard Lt. Kennard was a prisoner at Clausthal and Holzminden POW camps. He escaped from Holzminden on the night of 23-24 July 1918 and successfully reached Holland. Add to this record. 226753 Capt. David "Munshi" Gray Captain David `Munshi' Gray was a prisoner in Holzminden POW camp. He escaped on the night of 23-24 July 1918 and reached Holland and freedom. Add to this record. 226752 Capt. Gore MC Captain Gore was a POW in Dulmen and Holzminden POW camps during the war. He escaped from Dulmen and was recaptured. He was then sent to Holzminden and spent nearly two months in solitary confinement as a punishment for attempting to escape from Dulmen. Add to this record. 226729 2/Lt. M. R. Chidson 2/Lt Chidson was a prisoner at Holzminden POW camp. Add to this record. 226689 Lt. J. K. Bousfield Lt Bousfield was a POW in Holzminden in Brunswick. He escaped on the night of 23-24 July 1918 along with 29 other prisoners. He made it to Holland along with nine other escapees. Add to this record. 226687 2nd Lt. Cecil Blain Lt. Blain was a POW during WWI. He escaped from Clausthal in Harz, but was recaptured. Then he was sent to Holzminden in Brunswick, where he escaped along with 29 POWs on the night of 23-24 July 1918. He and nine other escapees made it to Holland and freedom. Add to this record. 226680 Lt. H. H. Baker Lancashire Fusiliers Lt Baker was a POW at Dulmen in the Rhine and also at Holzminden in Brunswick. While in Dulmen an escape attempt earned him seven weeks in solitary confinement at Holzminden where he had been sent after recapture. Pete Add to this record. 226672 Lt. Joseph Allen Lt. Allen was a POW at Holzminden in Brunswick. Pete Add to this record. Recomended Reading. Available at discounted prices.