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German Prison Camp
replied on: 2/16/2006 12:55:47 PM

GERMAN PRISONERS OF WAR
AT DENBY
(History of Denby by Mark Fryar)
From August 20th 1917 until the end of the war, a hundred German prisoners of war were interned in a camp at Denby (field no 575, ordnance survey, 1914). They were employed at the tar macadam works near to the camp, and by farmers in the neighbourhood. Three of them died and were buried in Denby churchyard, and their fellow prisoners erected two memorial stones, made by them from fine slag and cement to their memory.
Name and regiment

SCHLICHTING, JOHANNES, VIZEFEILDWEBEL. 10/5 GARDE DEATH OCTOBER 9TH 1918 AGED 23 YEARS.

THIEROFF HERMANN MUSKETIER 9/6 BAYRISCHE DEATH NOVEMBER 30TH 1918 AGED 23 YEARS.

WINTER XAVER GEMEINER 11/6 BAYRISCHE RESERVE DECEMBER 7TH 1918 26 YEARS.

DENBY BURIALS 1915-1918
THREE GERMAN PRISONERS OF WAR ARE ALSO LISTED
Schlichting Johnannes died Oct 9th 1918 (born Dec 9th 1894)
Thieroff Hermann died 30th Nov 1918 aged 23
Winter Xaver died Dec 7th 1918 aged 26 yrs.

Ripley & Heanor news
Friday 14th October 1977
GERMAN PRISONERS
AT DENBY
Plus photo
Sir, - Denby has recently been in the news through its cricket club, opencast operations and the interesting history of the village, but I cannot remember any mention of the German prisoners of war who were at Denby during the first World War.
I believe they were first placed in a camp in a field near Denby Miners Welfare about 1915-1916, but later moved to Kilburn Hall and finally to Smithy houses at the bottom of Ryknield Hill, known at the time as “Ticna” Lane.
Three of the prisoners never returned home after the war, having died in the flue epidemic about, 1918. I remember one of them being buried at Denby Churchyard with full military honours. I understand that the remains were later transferred to a general German cemetery.
Yours J. H. Cresswell.

Ripley & Heanor News
16th October 1987
LOSCOE ST LUKE’S CELEBRATES 60 YEARS.
PART OF THE REPORT
“The local communities continued to expand, however, and in the immediate aftermath of World War 1, a former prison hut was acquired and sited close to the Ormonde Colliery Wharf in Loscoe to serve as a Mission Room for Loscoe’s growing population.

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