Prisoner Of War

[Rudolf H B]

He has been at Kemmel (West Flanders) in Belgium, - unwounded.
He had been transferred to the Rhineland.

He has been POW in Friedrichsfeld near Wesel (now a part of the town Voerde):

"Im Ersten Weltkrieg wurde Friedrichsfeld erneut als Kriegsgefangenenlager für Menschen verschiedener Nationen, wie Russen, Engländer, Serben, Italiener, Portugiesen und Belgier, genutzt. Dafür wurden gesondert Lager errichtet. Von 1914 bis 1919 starben 620 der kriegsgefangenen Soldaten. 1916 errichteten die Gefangen unter Hilfe der Militärverwaltung in der Mitte des Friedhofs das Kriegerdenkmal. Einige Jahre nach Ende des Krieges wurden die meisten Toten in ihre Heimat überführt. Ebenso wurde das Lager aufgelöst " (Wikipedia:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrichsfeld_(Niederrhein)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voerde

Why and when had he been in Morhange?
There had been no POW-camp in or near Morhange or Saaralbe (reburrials).

"Au cours de la guerre, beaucoup de jeunes Morhangeois tombèrent sous l’uniforme allemand, sur le Front de l’Est, mais aussi à l’Ouest, en particulier en France et dans les Flandres. Sujets loyaux du Kaiser, les Mosellans accueillent cependant avec joie la fin des hostilités et la paix, enfin retrouvée. Morhange redevient française après la signature de l’Armistice de 1918. Les casernes sont alors occupées par une importante garnison, comptant jusqu'à trois régiments et un commandant de place ayant le grade de général"
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morhange_(Moselle)#Premi.C3.A8re_Guerre_mondiale

"While the soviet councils disbanded themselves with the departure of the German troops between November 11 and 17, the arrival of the French Army stabilized the situation: French troops put the region under occupatio bellica and entered Strasbourg on November 21. The Nationalrat proclaimed the annexation of Alsace to France on December 5, even though this process did not gain international recognition until the signature of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alsace-Lorraine#Annexation_to_the_French_Republic

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarralbe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarralbe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morhange
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kemmel

http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2913076/DUNHAM,%20A%20J

I am almost sure that the Military Recovery Units or IWGC officers had German or French paperwork on this case.

Rudolf

NB: Since two years we are waiting for the burrial of a RAF cockpit crew of four men. The MREU had inspected the crash site in 1945. The gunners found their reburrial on a British military cemetary, but the official report to the relatives had been: Missed in Action over the North Sea - until September 2012, when the cockpit was excavated.

[Rudolf H B]

May be he died in a French hospital.

There had been around 250 burrials in Morhange.
The French soldiers had been exhumed and reburied.
Years later there had been 4 500 German reburrials.

In Saaralbe there had been a reburrial of the RAF 2nd Lt. Ward,
who died January 2nd, 1919 in Sarreguemines.

Morhange (photo):
http://www.volksbund.de/kriegsgraeberstaetten.html

[melia]

I have been studing his page from the ICRC.
It appears he was captured unwounded on 25/4/1918 and taken to Friedrichsfeld POW.
His paperwork from the CWGC website gives him buried Morhange date of death 16/10/18 crossed out and written in 22/12/18.
Memorial after digging but no body found is at Sarralbe cemetery. He is one of the 11 soldiers who have a special memorial marked out for them
Melia