Derek Robertson 🇺🇦 Revd Nicholas Pye Giles MacDonogh Pirate Irwin Malcolm C Godfrey Antoine Vanner Margaret #FBPE 🇪🇺 💙 Derick Norton Dr Alexander Clarke GMan (Ґленн) ☘️🇬🇧🇺🇦🇺🇸🇵🇱🇮🇱🍊🌻 Lucy London Stobs Camp Project This is the survivors being marched up into captivity at Edinburgh Castle.

Revd Nicholas Pye Giles MacDonogh Pirate Irwin Malcolm C Godfrey Antoine Vanner Margaret #FBPE 🇪🇺 💙 Derick Norton Dr Alexander Clarke GMan (Ґленн) ☘️🇬🇧🇺🇦🇺🇸🇵🇱🇮🇱🍊🌻 Lucy London The survivors of the Blucher were sent to Stobs Camp Project There they led the camp guards a merry dance with several escape attempts from their captivity.

In WW1, HM Factory Gretna was top-secret. All the staff had to sign the Official Secrets Act when they joined. They were given a book of rules & regulations to follow

This page has 'rules regarding smoking, carrying of matches, lights, ect'
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@ExploreYourArchive ARA Scotland

#WW1 Pic of the Day. In 1917 Nico Jungmann painted ‘Trafalgar Square’ at Ruhleben internment camp - for mostly British civilians. The inmates enlivened their imprisonment by opening shops around a square they called ‘Trafalgar’. Art.IWM ART 523

#AlexandraPalace was a civilian #internment camp for 3,000 civilian men during #ww1 . #allypallyprisoncamp #history #history girlsblog #London

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The Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery (pic 1) and German Military Cemetery (pics 2-4) at Cannock Chase in Staffordshire. The latter is the last resting place of 2,143 #WW1 soldiers, including four Zeppelin crews shot down over England, and 2,786 soldiers who died in #WW2 . Humbled.

Buffalo Bill and his show visited Hawick. Their tents were pitched just down the road from Stobs Camp Project

📢📽️Glimpses of German History Ep.4: WW1 Prisoner of War Plate
In this episode Prof Tim Grady Tim Grady (@uochester) tells us about a plate made out of a saucepan lid by a German prisoner of war held at the POW camp in Handforth, Cheshire
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Deutscher Soldatenfriedhof (German Military Cemetery), Cannock Chase, 27 December 2023. The final resting place of the 46 civilians, soldiers & sailors who died at Stobs between 1915-1919. A visit 7 years in the making. Think I got something in my eye. #StobsFamily #WW1 Commonwealth War Graves

Frohe Weihnacht! Today's Christmas greeting comes from the other side of No Man's Land. German postcard, First World War.

My Collection.

'Retreat from Verdun' - A German Mauser T-Gewehr anti-tank rifle team in position on the Western Front, 1918.

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#OTD 3 December 1915: The #Kelso Chronicle reports on the marriage of Stobs civilian internee Paul Biesen. Banker's clerk Biesen had arrived at Stobs in June. Some time after the ceremony, the bridegroom went one way (escorted back to Stobs obvs!), and his bride another way! #WW1

My latest article rounds off a series on 'enemy aliens' by looking at dependents of German civilian internees, and the prisoners' cemetery at Stobs Camp Project.

Read the full article online via The Hawick Paper (£1.20 sub) at goo.gl/d9YFC4, or on the app.

#OTD 26 November 1916: The latest issue of the camp newspaper 'Stobsiade' provides a report on postal service operations. In October 1916 alone, there were 12,683 incoming packets and 38,537 letters and 42,911 outgoing letters. British officers act as censors & translators #WW1