Internee in Holland, 1918

[Alan Baker]

I am attaching a scan of a postcard I have recently acquired. It was sent by a CSM in the Royal Scots who in 1918 was interned in Holland. The postmark is Scheveningen (as is the picture on the reverse)

CSM J Wright was listed as missing in September 1914 and in 1915 as a POW. Why would he have been transferred to internment in Holland in 1918? I understand that he would still have been treated as a POW rather than an internee

[Frank Schofield]

Alan

I understand that at the later stages of the war many sick & wounded POW's (because of the food shortages etc in Germany) were transferred as internees to Holland

The man you need to contact, a non member, is Les Jobbins, of Reigate, who knows all there is to know about the Internees in Holland

I have his book on RND internees

Frank Schofield

[Alan Baker]

Many thanks. That is what I thought would be the case

I will endeavour to contact him for more info. Have you got an address or anything? Their website seems quite out of date

[Frank Schofield]

Alan

Will e-mail his address tomorrow morning (Sat)

Frank