Wilhelm Heinrich Eduard Wolter

Dec 20, 2024

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Roll Call #: 4430
Surname: Wolter
Given Name: Wilhelm Heinrich Eduard
AKA Surname: Wolters / Walter
AKA Given Name: William Henry Edward
Empire German
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Place of origin: Stettin Stadt (Szczecin), Pommern, Prussia
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Place of birth: Stettin Stadt (Szczecin), Pommern, Prussia
Year of birth: Abt 1859
Month of birth: 4
Place of death: Vernon, BC
Year of death: 1918
Month of death: 5
Place of burial: Woodland Cemetery, Kitchner, ON
Occupation: Hairdresser
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Additional information: Does not wish to be repatriated. Son of Wilhelm August Wolter and Wilhelmine Louise Auguste Berthold. Wife was living in London, England at the time of his death. Lived in Kamloops (47 Victoria Street) prior to his internment. COD: pericarditis and endocarditis, syncope. Died in camp. Orginally buried in the Pleasant Valley Cemetery, Vernon, BC.
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Internments

POW # from RCF: 346
Internment camp from RCF: Vernon
Internment dates from RCF: 1915-May-14 - 1918-May-06

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☆ Royal BC Museum; British Columbia Death Registrations, 1872-1993; British Columbia Archives film number B13113, registration number 1918-09-209337, Division of Vital Statistics, Victoria
☆ Germany, Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013
☆ W.A. Jeffries & Co.’s Kamloops City Directory. W.A. Jeffries and Company, Kamloops, B.C. 1913.
☆ Library and Archives Canada; War Graves Registers: Circumstances of Death; Box: 278; Wilhelm Heinrich Eduard Wolter.
☆ ICRC Historical Archives. Prisoners of the First World War, 1914-1918. List No. 197 of German Prisoners of War. Prisoners of War Interned Outside Europe. Appendix III – Deaths.
☆ ICRC Historical Archives. Prisoners of the First World War, 1914-1918. 54th List of German Prisoners of War. Prisoners of War Interned Outside of the United Kingdon or France.
☆ Library and Archives Canada, Department of the Secretary of State of Canada fonds, RG 6, “Wartime records series”, volume 763, file 4911, Alphabetical List of P.O.W. in Camps. Vernon Internment Camp Germans. 17-Mar-31 W.H. Walter
☆ ICRC Historical Archives. Prisoners of the First World War, 1914-1918. Prisoner Index Card. Wilhelm Heinrich Edward Wolter.
☆ ICRC Historical Archives. Prisoners of the First World War, 1914-1918. List No. 265 of German Prisoners of War – Outside Europe. Appendix V – Particulars of Burial of Deceased Prisoners of War.
☆ Library and Archives Canada, Department of the Secretary of State of Canada fonds, RG 6, “Wartime records series”, volume 752, file 3168, PTIII, Custodian of Enemy Property and internment operations records, 1914-1915. Repatriation, German Civilians over 45. German Prisoners of War over the age of forty-five years who are eligible for repatriation but who do not desire such, Vernon.
☆ Library and Archives Canada, Department of the Secretary of State of Canada fonds, RG 6, “Wartime records series”, volume 752, file 3168, PTIII, Custodian of Enemy Property and internment operations records, 1914-1915. Repatriation, German Civilians over 45. Germans over the age of 45 years, Vernon.
☆ Library and Archives Canada, Department of the Secretary of State of Canada fonds, RG 6, “Wartime records series”, volume 752, file 3168, PTI, Custodian of Enemy Property and internment operations records, 1914-1951. Repatriation, German Civilians over 45. List of German 45 years of age and over when interned.

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Vernon