22 August 1917: 2 Skipton POWs captured near Ypres
On 22 August 1917 two German soldiers were captured who would later be imprisoned at Skipton Camp. Both were captured in Belgium. Private Emil Hückelheim...
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19 August 1917: Erwin Bartels captured near St Quentin
2nd Lieutenant Erwin Bartels was captured near the hamlet of Le Catelet near St Quentin in Picardy. He was suffering from a slight bayonet wound...
17 August 1917: Friedrich Ibscher captured at Langemarck
Promoted non-commissioned officer Friedrich Ibscher was captured at Langemarck on 17 August 1917. He was from Straubing, a small town in the north of Bavaria....
16 August 1917: 6 Skipton POWs captured at Langemarck
The Battle of Langemarck – 16th August 1917 Some historians view the Battle of Passchendaele as a series of discrete attacks punctuated by periods of...
7 Skipton POWs captured near Lens on 15 August 1917
On 15 August 1917 Canadian troops attacked Hill 70 which lay to the north of the town of Lens in northern France. The aim was...
Fighter pilot Von Bertrab shot down on 12 August 1917
On 12 August 1917 2nd Lieutenant Joachim von Bertrab was shot down over the trenches of northern France. Von Bertrab was a fighter pilot with...
On 11 August 1917
19-year-old Private Albert Stasch was captured near Ypres on 11 August 1917. He was severely wounded with a fractured left leg due to the effects...
Skipton POWs at Passchendaele
31st July 1917 The word Passchendaele has become synonymous with the horror and futility of modern industrial warfare. It conjures up images of exhausted and...
On 26 July 1917
2nd Lieutenant Georg Bach was captured near the village of Hooge which lay a couple of miles or so from what had once been the...
On this day in 1917
Lieutenant Hans Carl Schumacher was captured on 30 June 1917 at Péronne in Northern France. Péronne lies close to the site of the Battle of...