Brief history of the Meyer Brothers

• May 8, 2018 08:12:18 Emilie Andersen

  Copy of Frank's diary kept while a prisoner of war in Germany. They

  were taken prisoners at the 2nd. Battles of Ypres on April. 15th. 1915. He made

  two attempts to escape and the compass he used on one attempt was made for him

  by a Polish prisoner and is in the box of mementos along with the knife and

  fork etc. he used while there. He and two others, travelling at night and

  hiding in the day time got within ten miles of the Holland border before being recaptured.

  The diary was started in May 1916, so there is no record of the first year of imprisonment.

  He and his brother, Arthur enlisted in Winnipeg on Aug. 8, 1914 in

  the 8th Battalion, 90th Regiment (Little Black Devils) and his number was 871.

  They trained in Winnipeg, Valcartier and left for England in Oct. 1914, sailing

  on the Franconia, part of a convoy of 22 ships. They trained at Salisbury

  Plains until they went into the trenches.

  Arthur was reported missing at the same time that Frank was taken

  prisoner and no definite details of his death were officially received by the

  family. Later, a solider who had been there said that Arthur had been wounded

  and he with a number of others were in a dressing station when the Germans

  surrounded them and before they realised they were wounded, shot them all.

  Then seeing their mistake, they buried them all in a common grave. That was probably why the family didn't receive any official word.

  
  

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