Here's a list of 137 men of the 1st Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment who became prisoners of the Kaiser on or before Christmas Day 1914. Read more about this Prisoner of War data source on my 1914 PoWs page.
This data has been transcribed from the following sources which are now housed at the Imperial War Museum:
- B.O.2 1/252: a three-page typed list from the officer i/c No 2 Infantry Record Office, Sessions House, Lancaster Road. Dated 17th January 1919.
- B.O.2 1/253: a four-page typed list from the Regimental Centre for the East Lancashire Regiment Prisoners of War. Dated 10th January 1919
8476 Private R H Ashworth
8588 Private F Auty
8405 Private W H Ball
10893 Private H Beamer
10030 Bandsman A V Bell
5374 Sergeant C Bennett
10714 Lance-Corporal F Beresford
8831 Private W Bolger
5630 Private J Bowman
9486 Private S H Boyd
3447 Private G Bradley
7885 Private W H Bromley
9493 Private T Bully
7827 Private A Bunney
8271 Private P Byrne
8560 Private H Cambridge
7663 Lance-Corporal H Carnell
8505 Lance-Corporal E Carter
7133 Private J Caton
8585 Drummer V G S Champion
8970 Private A Chapman
10729 Lance-Corporal R Clark
8338 Private R Clegg
9464 Sergeant A Craymer
8312 Private C W Cripps
9118 Private A Davies
911 Private A Davis
8219 Private W Davison
10602 Lance-Corporal W R C Denwood
9356 Bandsman F Dolman
8260 Private J Donnelly
8896 Private J Dooley
7006 Private T Dyer
7843 Private A Eastham
6897 Private J Eaton
9053 Private W Ellicott
7132 Private W Entwistle
8076 Private E Finn
8129 Private J J Flood
7718 Private C Ford
9441 Private R Gammon
7813 Private J Grafton
7798 Private J Green
7972 Private S H Halliwell
10920 Private W Hart
8534 Private H Hatcher
10343 Private W T Hawkins
10891 Private T Hazell
8225 Private J Healey
7650 Private J Higgins
10800 Private A Hill
8037 Private R Hillman
7115 Private A Holden
10705 Private P Holden
10227 Corporal F E D Horsley
10762 Private W Hoy
8224 Lance-Corporal J Hughes
8177 Private Vernon William Hurcum
10701 Private G W Jenkins
5753 Lance-Corporal C W Joel
10760 Private A Jones
8685 Private G W Jones
5689 Sergeant J R Kay
10623 Corporal J R Kenney
10898 Private A King
8427 Private J R King
9784 Bandsman E Knight
7785 Private F Ladams
8091 Private F Lakin
8291 Private F Lancaster
10869 Private F Lee
9456 Private R Leeder
8008 Private William Leybourne
8507 Bandsman F Lomas
8507 Private F Lomas
7959 Private Henry Lund
10789 Private W Maddocks
8133 Private J Mansell
7920 Private J Martin
7739 Private James Mason
7657 Private E Mathers
10520 Bandsman A Maycock
8360 Private B McConnell
19026 Sergeant A Merritt
4737 Sergeant T Miley
7125 Private F Miller
10565 Private H Mitchell
7683 Private W Moore
6453 Private J Muirhead
8412 Private J N Naylor
9029 Private E Newsham
8543 Private T Nunn
10244 Private E Oates
9006 Private J Ozanne
10562 Private B Pass
10777 Private H E Pawley
8639 Private W Peoples
8263 Private R Pilling
7910 Private G Plowman
7610 Private J Rampton
10646 Private W Ramsbottom
10904 Private J Redmond
8175 Private A E Reed
8175 Private A Reid
10439 Drummer C G Riches
7844 Private T Rogers
7120 Private H Rutherford
10241 Lance-Sergeant I G F Scott
8944 Private C Shanley
6791 Private J Shaw
8489 Private R Short
10851 Lance-Corporal R J Slater
6742 Private C Smith
7990 Private J Smith
8234 Private T Smith
9487 Private W Smith
7128 Private T Spencer
9857 Private J Stephens
8095 Corporal S A Thompson
10280 Sergeant J Tingle
10648 Private B J Toop
8801 Private P Tracey
10087 Private C Travis
6710 Corporal W Tynan
8660 Private R Underwood
8648 Private A Watson
9435 Private G Watts
7726 Private J Whewell
8486 Private B White
7899 Private J Whiteside
8942 Private J Whitwell
8191 Private A Williams
8712 Private J T Williams
6554 Sergeant F Wilmott
9677 Private A Wishart
8452 Private W Witherington
5964 CQMS H Woan
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