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Schweidtnitz POW Camp If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. Want to know more about Schweidtnitz POW Camp? There are:-1 items tagged Schweidtnitz 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 Schweidtnitz POW Camp during the Great War 1914-1918. Crowson Ambrose Henry Thomas. Lt. Leicestershire Regiment Hardy Jocelyn L.. Lt. Connaught Rangers Kaye Marcus. 2nd Lt. McCallum Arthur Howard K.. Lt. 25 Squadron Rathbone Charles. Col. Sterndale MC. J. B.. Capt. South Wales Borderers Sutcliffe George Allan. 2nd Lt. Border Regiment 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. 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Ambrose was a former officer of the Leicestershire Regiment during WW1, having been commissioned as 2nd Lt early in 1918. During the German spring offensive of May 1918 he was captured, suffering from shell shock, in his trench after a heavy and sustained German bombardment. He was captured on 27th of May 1918, along with some of his fellow 8th Battalion and 4th Battalion officers, and was subsequently interred at the Schweidnitz officers P.O.W. camp in Germany (this is now part of modern day Poland). He was repatriated in 1919. I know little of his 2nd World War service, other than his willingness to volunteer once again to 'do his bit' I know that he had commanded a home guard unit, despite the fact he was working at the coal mine 7 days a week. I obtained his Home Guard unit information, I'd always believed he commanded the Dorden and Grendon home guard, but this may not be the case. Matthew John Crowson Add to this record. 262767 2nd Lt. George Allan Sutcliffe 8th (Lonsdale) Btn. Border Regiment George Sutcliffe joined the Border Regiment in late 1917/early 1918 (after 2 years fighting in East Africa). He joined the 8th Btn, B Coy on 4th of May 1918, and spent much of May training and getting ready to go into the line, NE of Reims. He wrote home on 26th of May saying 'ready to move out'. On 27th of May 1918, German troops overran the trenches to the north and quickly moved south, smothering his battalion. George was reported missing on 29th of May (all this from the Border Regimental Diary) and he was reported (in the Red Cross files) as being captured on 27th of May 1918, then sent via Karlsruhe to Schweidnitz internment camp in Silesia (now Swidniza in Poland). He was repatriated in 1919. Sheila Currie Add to this record. 243899 Lt. Arthur Howard K. McCallum 25 Squadron Arthur McCallum was held in Schweidnitz POW camp. Susan McCallum Add to this record. 226807 Capt. J. B. Sterndale MC South Wales Borderers Captain Sterndale was taken prisoner at Lys and sent to Schweidnitz POW Camp in Silesia. 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. 226767 2nd Lt. Marcus Kaye Lt Kaye was a prisoner at Schweidnitz POW camp. He made at least one attempt to escape. Add to this record. 226754 Lt. Jocelyn L. Hardy Connaught Rangers Lt. Jocelyn Hardy was an inveterate escaper, making a total of ten escape attempts during his time in Clausthal, Magdeburg and Schweidwitz POW camps. He finally succeeded and reached freedom in Holland, along with fellow-escapee Captain Willie Loder-Symonds. While he was a POW he was promoted and transferred to the Royal Inniskillen Fusiliers. 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