All of these men became prisoners of the Germans in 1914, their names appearing in a list now held by The Imperial War Museum under catalogue reference, B.O.2 1/161. This is a five-page hand-written letter and comprises two lists with many identical details but some unique information against some men. The list is dated 13th Jan 1919.
Amongst the unfortunate number below, the majority of whom would languish - if that's the right word - in German prison camps for the next four years - was 7368 Corporal Charles Garforth who was awarded the Victoria Cross for his valour on the 23rd August 1914 and who would later be immortalised on various editions of cigarette cards.
3401 Corporal F Abbott
728 Lance-Corporal F Aspinall
4502 Private W Atkins
7323 Private W Baker
8640 Lance-Corporal G Ball
123 Private F G Batt
10189 Private J Blake
2342 Private F A Butler
4562 Private W Cameron
7318 Private G Causey
7476 Private M Crow
7362 Private E Dallard
4742 Trumpeter Day
8308 Private H Edwards
8607 Private H Fudge
7368 Corporal Charles Ernest Garforth (above)
4774 Lance-Corporal Charles Gogarty 746 Trumpeter G Goode
5968 Private H Grant
7403 Private G Hill
656 Private A Johnson
2494 Lance-Corporal F Johnson
496 Private F W Johnson
4507 Lance-Corporal A Lyons
4412 Saddler D McDonald
4710 Private A McFarlane
4475 Private W S Nicholson
124 Private F Painter
3564 Private W Parsons
3211 Private F Pearce
3172 Private W Pearce
1836 Private J Phillips
4501 Corporal W Roffey
4725 Private J Rooke
998 Private G Slack
1055 Saddler C Stunt
2616 Private G J Trump
1033 Private W Webb
5450 Private H Wells
7231 Trumpeter Whitmore
7332 Private G Wingrove
4756 Sergeant Ernest V Winyard
566 Private A Young
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