17th (Service)Bn
The XX Lancashire Fusiliers
(1st South East Lancs)
Bantam Bn
War Diaries of POWs

14133 Pte Lord Harris
Captured 25th August 1916 at the Somme
Wounded with Bullet in right hand

14472 Pte William Pearson
Captured Guillmont
26th August 1916
Unwounded he was interviewed with 3 others

202658 L/Cpl Albert Winterbottom
Captured St Quentin
21st March 1918
Unwounded




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"This item was sent in by Carole Edwards.It is a silver cup won by her grandfather
15394 Pte J Male.
for winning the cross country race held at the 35 Division Sports Day on the 4th January 1918
at a place called Poperinghe in Belgium.
"Pops" was never out of British hands, and was something of a haven behind the lines,
although it was subjected to shelling that grew in intensity throughout the war.
Here men could find shops, estaminets, restaurants, billets and a hundred different military establishments,
as well as the leave trains for England.
There were always medical units here: 677 British soldiers who died of wounds at nearby Casualty Clearing Stations lie in Poperinge New Military Cemetery (Click on link)
...as do several men executed for military crimes.