The photograph above, of some of the 12/5/44 Allied POW casualties in Prague War Cemetery is courtesy of Mrs M Roberts, who is standing behind the gravestone of her grandfather, Pte Charles Moore, 16 DLI.
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The POW casualty details for 12/5/44 and 21/7/44 on this and the following pages have been drawn from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission database. However, this database does not list the several unidentified 12/5/44 POW casualties who are buried in Prague. In the photograph above, note the grave on the right of ‘A Victim of the Second World War, 12 May 1944.’
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CWGC policy regarding POWs who died in captivity and who have no known grave is to record them on the relevant Campaign Memorial for the theatre of war in which they were captured: El Alamein, Medjez-el-Bab, Cassino, etc. For instance a British POW who was captured at Dunkirk in 1940, but who died with no known in grave in 1944 Nazi hands, would be commemorated on the Dunkirk Memorial. Similarly, a POW captured in Tunisia in 1943, but who died as a POW in 1944, would be commemorated on the Medjez-el-Bab Memorial. Intriguingly, there is at least one Dunkirk POW and one Tunisian Campaign POW who are listed on these respective memorials who died as POWs on 12/5/44 and their names are noted in the listing on the following pages.
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These are the 34 named Allied POWs who died on 12/5/44 who are now buried in Prague War Cemetery:
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Atkinson, Pte John Willie, 3320045. 2nd Bn Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment). Died as a POW, 12/5/44, aged 27. Son of Ernest and Zylpha Atkinson, of Leeds, Yorkshire; husband of Edna Atkinson, of Leeds. Prague War Cemetery, I B 8.
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Bateman, Pte Noel J, 241486. Rand Light Infantry, South African Forces. Died as a POW, 12/5/44, aged 35. Husband of Maria S. Bateman, of Daleside, Transvaal, South Africa. Prague War Cemetery, I A 6.
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Boarer, Pte Thomas George, 6344680. Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment. Died as a POW 12/5/44, aged not recorded by CWGC. Son of Emma Coulridge, of Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Prague War Cemetery, I A 5.
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Bowdin, Pte Victor, 4345760. Captured serving with 5th Bn East Yorkshire Regiment. Died as a POW, 12/5/44, aged 26. Son of Robert Thompson Bowdin and Amy Bowdin, of Bradford, Yorkshire. Prague War Cemetery, I D 7.
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Brodersen, Gnr Clifford Marsden, 28903. 5th Regiment, New Zealand Artillery. Died as a POW, 12/5/44, aged 33. No CWGC Next of Kin details. Prague War Cemetery, III A 3.
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Browne, Dvr Alfred Frederick, 3766, New Zealand Army Service Corps. Died as a POW, 12/5/44, aged 26. Son of Alfred James Browne and Elizabeth Browne, of Aoroa, Auckland, New Zealand. Prague War Cemetery, I A 11.
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Bull, Pte Joseph Thomas, 4972904, 1st Bn Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment). Died as a POW, 12/5/44, aged 33. Son of Joseph and Mabel Bull, of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. Prague War Cemetery, IV A 2.
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Calvert, Spr George Edward, 2126952, 233 Field Company, Royal Engineers. Died as a POW 12/5/44, aged 28. Son of Edward and Sarah Calvert; husband of Ivy Lilian Calvert, of Putney, London. Prague War Cemetery, I D 8.
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Campbell, L/Bdr Stuart, 903509, 121 Field Regiment, Royal Artillery. Died as a POW, 12/5/44, aged 25. Son of William Scott Campbell and Mary Ann Campbell; husband of Maisie Marjorie Campbell, of Pool-in-Wharfedale, Yorkshire. Prague War Cemetery, III D 3. NEXT PAGE
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