Holzminden prisoner-of-war camp was a World War I prisoner-of-war camp for British and British Empire officers (Offizier Gefangenenlager) located in Holzminden...
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Holzminden internment camp was a large World War I detention camp (Internierungslager) located to the north-east of Holzminden, Lower Saxony, Germany,...
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Michael Bowes-Lyon (British Army officer) (category British World War I prisoners of war)
held as a prisoner of war at Holzminden prisoner-of-war camp for the rest of the war. He relinquished his commission in 1921. After the war, Bowes-Lyon...
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Aubrey de Sélincourt (category British World War I prisoners of war)
victory. He remained a prisoner for the rest of the war, for much of the time at Holzminden prisoner-of-war camp. Following the war and his discharge from...
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World War I, German prisoner-of-war camps were run by the 25 Army Corps Districts into which Germany was divided. Around 2.4 million men were World War I...
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French army after several attempts. July 23/24, 1918 – Holzminden officers' prisoner-of-war camp. Ten of 29 British officers made their way to freedom, making...
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Claude George Bowes-Lyon, 14th and 1st Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, KG, KT, GCVO, TD (14 March 1855 – 7 November 1944), styled as Lord Glamis from...
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gardener and embroiderer, and preferred a quiet family life. During World War I, Glamis Castle served as a convalescent hospital for the wounded, in which...
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Who Goes Next? (category World War I prisoner of war films)
through a tunnel from Holzminden prisoner-of-war camp in Lower Saxony, Germany, in July 1918. During the First World War, a number of captured British officers...
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Additionally, prisoner-of-war camps that do not also intern non-combatants or civilians are treated under a separate category. During the Dirty War which accompanied...
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Edward Bellew (category Canadian prisoners of war in World War I)
was taken prisoner. Bellew remained a prisoner of war (latterly in Holzminden prisoner-of-war camp) until 1919, and achieved the rank of Captain. He...
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F. W. Winterbotham (category British World War I prisoners of war)
and "passed the time" learning German. For much of the time he was in the Holzminden prisoner-of-war camp. Upon his release in 1918 he went to Christ Church...
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James Whale (category British World War I prisoners of war)
1916. He was taken prisoner of war in battle on the Western Front in Flanders in August 1917, and was held at Holzminden Officers' Camp, where he remained...
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Edgar Henry Garland (category World War I prisoners of war held by Germany)
at the Holzminden prisoner of war camp, reserved for British and British Empire officers. He participated in the largest POW escape of the war – the first...
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William Stephenson (category Canadian prisoners of war in World War I)
a prisoner of war until allegedly escaping in October 1918.[page needed] His RAF Service file indicates that he was repatriated from the Holzminden prisoner-of-war...
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internment camp. World War I prisoners of war in Germany List of prisoner-of-war camps in Germany List of concentration and internment camps Holzminden internment...
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Brian Horrocks (category British World War I prisoners of war)
native tongue. In the latter part of the war he was held in Holzminden prisoner-of-war camp. His resistance in captivity would earn him the Military Cross...
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John Keith Bousfield (category British World War I prisoners of war)
down and he was taken prisoner of war. He was interned at Karlsruhe, Krefeld, Ströhen and later at Holzminden prisoner-of-war camp. On 24 July 1918, he...
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Erroll Chunder Sen (category World War I prisoners of war held by Germany)
interned in Holzminden prisoner-of-war camp for the remainder of the war. He was a participant in the attempted mass escape from the camp on 23/24 July...
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on French prisoners of war (in French) Site on military and civilian prisoners at Holzminden, Germany (in French) Site on the Quedlinburg camp Contemporary...
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O. G. S. Crawford (category British World War I prisoners of war)
was then transferred to Holzminden prisoner-of-war camp, where he was aware of an escape plan involving tunnelling out of the camp, but did not take part...
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Kathleen Simon, Viscountess Simon (category Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire)
serving in the First World War as a member of the Irish Guards, became a prisoner of war, she asked Simon for help. The two soon got engaged; it has been suggested...
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F. W. Harvey (redirect from Laureate of Gloucestershire)
patrol. He spent the rest of the war in prisoner-of-war camps, including those at Gütersloh, Crefeld, Schwarmstedt, Holzminden, Bad Colberg, and Stralsund...
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No. 19 Squadron RAF (category Military units and formations of the Royal Air Force in World War I)
Lille area and spent the rest of the war in a number of prisoner of war camps, including Holzminden prisoner-of-war camp. It was his very first flight...
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Escape and evasion map (section World Wars)
for use in July 1918 by prisoners in the German Holzminden POW Camp, sections of map were sewn into the clothing of prisoners who escaped via a tunnel...
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She remained as a prisoner of war for three years in the Holzminden internment camp. Dejardin was elected to the municipal council of Liège in 1926 as...
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Charles Eaton (RAAF officer) (category British World War I prisoners of war)
behind enemy lines and captured in the vicinity of Nieppe. Incarcerated in Holzminden prisoner-of-war camp, Germany, Eaton escaped but was recaptured and...
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Christopher Hutton (category British Army personnel of World War II)
idea: for instance, Allied prisoners of war used cloth maps sewn into their clothes to escape from the German Holzminden camp in July 1918. Hutton's idea...
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Susanne Albrecht (category Members of the Red Army Faction)
school, and was later sent to a private school in Holzminden. In 1971 she attended the University of Hamburg where she studied sociology, and it was around...
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