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Photo Gallery - First World War

Lieutenant A S Latham, 1st/4th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.

Lieutenant A S Latham served with the 1st/4th Battalion of the King's Own, and was taken prisoner on 9th April 1918.

At rest - Pforzheim Officer POW Camp, Germany, 1918
Accession Number: KO2556/01

Exercise - or going to or from the Football match? Pforzheim Officer POW Camp, Germany , 1918
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Football match Pforzheim Officer POW Camp, Germany, 1918
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Exercise, or going to or from football match? Pforzheim Officer POW Camp, Germany Including Lieutenant A S Latham of the King’s Own. 1918
Accession Number: KO2556/04

Football match, Pforzheim Officer POW Camp, Germany, 1918
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Football match, Pforzheim Officer POW Camp, Germany, 1918
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Football match, Pforzheim Officer POW Camp, Germany, 1918
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Possibly early days of capture of Lieutenant A S Latham, with German Guard, probably April 1918.  Latham is the officer in the steel helmet behind the German soldier.  2nd Lieutenant Tom Threadgold is the officer in the middle with the pipe and coat.
Accession Number: KO2556/08

King's Own prisoners of war, left to right, 2nd Lieutenant Tom Chaplin Threadgold, Lieutenant A S Latham, MC, and 2nd Lieutenant Gordon Steel.  All three officers went missing on the 9th April, Threadgold and Latham serving with the 1st/4th Battalion and Steel with the 1st/5th Battalion.  They were held at Pforzheim Officer Prisoner of War Camp.  Threadgold was repatriated on 8th December 1918 and Steel and Latham followed two days later on 10th December 1918.
Accession Number KO2556/09

Pforzheim Officer POW Camp, Germany 2nd Lieutenant Tom Threadgold from Winsford Cheshire
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Pforzheim Officer POW Camp, Germany 1918, 2nd Lieutenant G Steel, King’s Own.
Accession Number: KO2556/11

Pforzheim Officer POW Camp, Germany, 1918, 2nd Lieutenant Leithead, 5th King’s or King’s Own?
Accession Number: KO2556/12

Pforzheim Officer POW Camp, Germany, 1918, group photo with 2nd Lieutenant Leitheard, Threadgold, Steel and Maynard (RFA) and Lieutenant A S Latham.
Accession Number: KO2556/13

Pforzheim Officer POW Camp, Germany, 1918, with Lieutenant Latham, 2nd Lieutenant Threadgold, Steel, Maynard and Leithead.
Accession Number: KO2556/14

Pforzheim Officer POW Camp, Germany, 1918, Robey’s Own Concert Party
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Pforzheim Officer POW Camp, Germany, 1918, The Camp Library
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Pforzheim Officer POW Camp, Germany, 1918, The Camp Library
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Pforzheim Officer POW Camp, Germany, 1918 Concert Party group
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Pforzheim Officer POW Camp, Germany,1918, concert party stage
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Pforzheim Officer POW Camp, Germany, 1918, concert party in car
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Pforzheim Officer POW Camp, Germany, 1918, concert party.
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Pforzheim Officer POW Camp, Germany, 1918, concert party.
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Pforzheim Officer POW Camp, Germany, 1918, concert party.
Accession Number: KO2556/23

Postcard showing location of Pforzheim, Germany.
Accession Number: KO2556/35

Three officers of the 1st/4th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, including Lieutenant A S Latham, circa 1917
Accession Number: KO2556/24

Group of officers and one soldier of the 1st/4th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, including Lieutenant A S Latham, circa 1917
Accession Number: KO2556/25

Officers Group of the 1st/4th Battalion, King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, including Lieutenant A S Latham, circa 1917
Accession Number: KO2556/26

Pforzheim officer Prisoner of War Camp, Exercise Yard, 1918 with officers in deckchairs.
Accession Number: KO2556/27

  
The photographer who took the photos in the Pforzheim Officers Prisoner of War Camp, 1918
Accession Number: KO2556/28

2nd Lieutenant Gordon Steel at Pforzheim Officer Prisoner of War Camp, 1918.  Gordon Steel was commissioned into the King's Own on 26th June 1917 and joined the 7th Battalion in December 1917.  Later he transferred to the 5th Battalion, with whom he was serving when he was taken prisoner on 9th April 1918.
Accession Number KO2556/29

2nd Lieutenant Leithhead, 5th King’s Regiment, Pforzheim Officers Prisoner of War Camp, 1918
Accession Number: KO2556/30

2nd Lieutenant Tom Threadgold at Pforzheim Officer Prisoner of War Camp, 1918.  Tom Threadgold was commissioned into the King's Own on 27th June 1917 and posted to the 7th Battalion on 9th November 1917.  He was posted to the 1st/4th Battalion and was taken prisoner of 9th April 1918.
Accession Number KO2556/31

164th Infantry Brigade Magazine ‘Being a volume composed by past and present members of the Brigade as a Souvenir of its services in France During the War”
Accession Number: KO2556/32

‘Our Outlook’ Oct 1918 Offiziergefangenenlager Pforzheim. Relating to Lieutenant A S Latham who was a POW in 1918.
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Leaflet “British Prisoners of War Book Scheme (Educational)” First World War.
Accession Number: KO2556/34
 

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