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WWI Era Postcard Identification Please

  • finderscellars
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    I would be grateful if anyone could please help identify this rather grubby postcard that I have.

    I believe that it might be a group of French prisoners in Germany, since the sign states "Horndorf" or "Horndore", but my Google skills have let me down.

    Any help would be quite appreciated - thanking you in advance.

    -Tom-
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  • BobUK
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    I would be grateful if anyone could please help identify this rather grubby postcard that I have.

    I believe that it might be a group of French prisoners in Germany, since the sign states "Horndorf" or "Horndore", but my Google skills have let me down.

    Any help would be quite appreciated - thanking you in advance.

    -Tom-
    • Created on Dec 12, 2014 at 11:05 PM
    • #528830
    I think the place you are searching for is Gut Horndorf where there was a milltary presence in 1915 but Iv not been able to find out about the card
  • alan65
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    I would be grateful if anyone could please help identify this rather grubby postcard that I have.

    I believe that it might be a group of French prisoners in Germany, since the sign states "Horndorf" or "Horndore", but my Google skills have let me down.

    Any help would be quite appreciated - thanking you in advance.

    -Tom-
    • Created on Dec 12, 2014 at 11:05 PM
    • #528830
    The back of the card mentions Lager Holzminden [Holzminden Camp]which was a German POW camp during WWI. I can't read all of the words at the top but it does say "prisonier ???? francais". Can you read the top words above that?
    It's unclear whether one or more of the men pictured were POWs at Holzminden or not.
  • finderscellars
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    Canada

    The back of the card mentions Lager Holzminden [Holzminden Camp]which was a German POW camp during WWI. I can't read all of the words at the top but it does say "prisonier ???? francais". Can you read the top words above that?
    It's unclear whether one or more of the men pictured were POWs at Holzminden or not.
    • Created on Dec 13, 2014 at 11:00 AM
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    Thank you for your responses.

    Yes, the message section on the back does mention French Civic Prisoner. Above that in the soiled section states the sender's name Norc??? Charles. The first line says "absender"

    I have provided a high res scan in greyscale to clarify things.
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  • alan65
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    Thank you for your responses.

    Yes, the message section on the back does mention French Civic Prisoner. Above that in the soiled section states the sender's name Norc??? Charles. The first line says "absender"

    I have provided a high res scan in greyscale to clarify things.
    • Created on Dec 13, 2014 at 1:36 PM
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    OK, thanks for enhanced scan!
    My guess would be that Charles Nor??? is the Noreux name listed on the sign on the front, that he is pictured there and that he was a POW at the camp. Notice the card is addressed to a Noreux, too.
    There was a famous escape from that camp but it was British soldiers who escaped, not Frenchmen.
    Still not clear to me what the Horndorf connection is to the message other than a place where Charles Noreux was during the war (I don't think the French army was inside Germany that far during WWI however.)
    Interesting item for sure!

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