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Chateau du Oex POW Camp If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. Want to know more about Chateau du Oex POW Camp? There are:-1 items tagged Chateau du Oex 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 Chateau du Oex POW Camp during the Great War 1914-1918. Justice James Robert. WOI. Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Parsonage John. Sgt. South Lancashire 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. Add a Name to this List Records from Chateau du Oex 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. 247703 Sgt. John Parsonage 3rd Btn. South Lancashire Regiment John Parsonage enlisted in the South Lancashire Regiment at the age of 20 and was posted to Rhanikhet, India where he served for 11 years rising to the rank of Sergeant. He re-enlisted in February 1915 and his unit was sent to serve in France on the Somme and at Ypres. He was wounded in action and taken prisoner and sent to Giessen POW camp. His injuries were severe and in view of the poor medical treatment he was eventually transferred to the Swiss internment camp at Chateau D'Oex for the duration. Andrew Parsonage Add to this record. 222823 WOI. James Robert Justice 1st Btn. Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry James Robert Justice joined the K.O.Y.L.I in 1904 at Aldershot he served with the 1st and 2nd battalions as various times. He was reported killed in action at Ypres 8th May 1915 (the family has the original KIA letter), later found to be incorrect and was in fact a POW at Giessen and later marched to Chateau du Oex in Switzerland finally being released in Nov 1917. He became RSM after the war and took the regiment out to Malaya, in later years his son in law James Leo Tanner also K.O Y.L.I RSM brought the regiment back from Malaya. He retired as WO CL I and became a postman eventually passing away in 1950. Leeanne Tanner Add to this record. Recomended Reading. Available at discounted prices.