The Lemon Fool

I've been researching the family tree and came across the POW entry for my Grandfather. He was shot and captured in 1918 and held in the Czersk POW camp, now in Poland. The Red Cross entry (No. 14) states his place of capture as 'Hoetst' (I think), which returns no results. Other entries on the same page include Craonne, St Quentin & Hendecourt etc, which are all actual place names. DAK what or where 'Hoetst' is ?

I think it is " Hoetst. " Looking at the other entries that final dot indicates to me that it is an abbreviation; but of what I can't establish.

https://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/un ... e-regiment says 11 Cheshires were at the 1918 St Quentin and Bapaume . Perhaps the regiment still has more detailed records of where it was deployed at the time.

If it's an abbreviation, perhaps "st" means street (or equivalent), since that's commonly abbreviated.

There's a Hoetstraat in Nijmegen in the Netherlands, but I'm not sure that helps.

Scott.

swill453 wrote:If it's an abbreviation, perhaps "st" means street (or equivalent), since that's commonly abbreviated.

There's a Hoetstraat in Nijmegen in the Netherlands, but I'm not sure that helps.

Scott.

I'd have thought a gap before St. for strasse but it's not impossible
Does the capital H for B in in oldish German stretch beyond music scores?

Ps. How weird does typewritten stuff look without kerning etc these days

Thanks all. The '.' indicating an abbreviation makes sense so I did a bit more digging this morning and found a further record. He was shot & captured in Ploegsteert. It looks like the 'P' & 'L' have run into each other giving the appearance of an 'H'. That doesn't account for the 't' instead of a 'g', however the Red Cross entry is in a German ledger so that could be the Germanic form.



PS. As well as the usual access to audiobooks, ebooks and magazines, my library also has a free online account with Ancestry.com so it's worth checking with the local library if researching the family tree is of interest.

Redmires wrote:That doesn't account for the 't' instead of a 'g', however the Red Cross entry is in a German ledger so that could be the Germanic form.

Assuming the german typewriter keyboard is like our QWERTY, t is directly above g, so maybe simply bad typing (a subject in which I am an expert)

--kiloran

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