Worcestershire Regiment Prisoners of War - Other Ranks (First World War)

Below is a list of all Worcestershire Regiment other ranks who were captured and spent time in a Prisoner of War Camp or were held as prisoners by the enemy. The details include their rank at the time of capture, the battalion they were serving with and the POW Camp they were finally held at until the end of the war.
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Surnames C to D
Surname Forename/s Rank Number Battalion Captured POW Camp POW No.
 Chiles Edward F. W. Pte. 72096 4th ?/03/1918 Hanover -
 Connor Charles  Pte.   9121 1st   25/03/1918   Sagan &
Heilsburg
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 Cox G. H. Pte. 203368 10th 10/04/1919 Lamsdorf -
 Cutts Arthur Pte.  9878 2nd 12/08/1916  - -
 Davies Ernest Pte. 22315 9th      

Notes:
Private Charles Connor (DOB 02/09/1894) - 1st Battalion Worcestershire Regiment ('B' Company) - Service Number 9121. Was captured at St Quentin on the 25/03/1918. Places of Internment, present in the camp of Darmstadt coming from Lazaret Piennes according to list dated 05/06/1918 - transferred to Camp of Sagan according to list dated 12/06/1918 - transferred to camp of Heilsburg according to list dated 07/09/1918.

Private G. H. Cox was captured at Messines. He was employed on work behind the German lines, unloading coal trucks at Laon and St. Gaubert and other places. He reported sick in May 1918 and was sent to the hospital on the 1st September 1918 suffering from diarrhoea. He died on the 14th October 1918. The Post-Mortem stated cause of death as; Chronic dysenteric colitis and great emaciation (starvation).
  

 

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