Nova Scotia death record-
Josef ‘Fortmawn’ (sic), died 8 Jan 1919 in Amherst, Cumberland County; death record can be found in Registration Year: 1919 - Book: 39 - Page: 312 - Number: 1236.
Matrose (Sailor) Fortmann, who was a sailor in the German Navy during the First World War, died in the Amherst Internment Camp from the haemorrhaging of a stomach ulcer.
Married, born in Germany, 36 years old and a stone mason by trade, he was a POW, held at the Internment Camp in Amherst, Nova Scotia. In August 1914 he was one of the German sailors taken prisoner off the ship “Kaiser Wilhelm Der Grosser” when it was intercepted and captured in the South Atlantic Ocean. Originally held on McNab’s Island, in Halifax Harbour, the German prisoners were later moved to the Amherst camp in Cumberland County; it was located in an iron foundry on the corner of Park and Hickman Streets in Amherst.
Those POW inmates who died while being held here were laid to rest in the Amherst Cemetery; there is a monument at the rear of this cemetery which lists their names. In 1970, on a joint request from the Commonwealth and the German war commissions, the remains of all German POWs who died while at this Canadian war internment camp were exhumed and reburied in the Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, cemetery.
Josef ‘Fortmawn’ (sic), died 8 Jan 1919 in Amherst, Cumberland County; death record can be found in Registration Year: 1919 - Book: 39 - Page: 312 - Number: 1236.
Matrose (Sailor) Fortmann, who was a sailor in the German Navy during the First World War, died in the Amherst Internment Camp from the haemorrhaging of a stomach ulcer.
Married, born in Germany, 36 years old and a stone mason by trade, he was a POW, held at the Internment Camp in Amherst, Nova Scotia. In August 1914 he was one of the German sailors taken prisoner off the ship “Kaiser Wilhelm Der Grosser” when it was intercepted and captured in the South Atlantic Ocean. Originally held on McNab’s Island, in Halifax Harbour, the German prisoners were later moved to the Amherst camp in Cumberland County; it was located in an iron foundry on the corner of Park and Hickman Streets in Amherst.
Those POW inmates who died while being held here were laid to rest in the Amherst Cemetery; there is a monument at the rear of this cemetery which lists their names. In 1970, on a joint request from the Commonwealth and the German war commissions, the remains of all German POWs who died while at this Canadian war internment camp were exhumed and reburied in the Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, cemetery.
Nova Scotia death record-
Josef ‘Fortmawn’ (sic), died 8 Jan 1919 in Amherst, Cumberland County; death record can be found in Registration Year: 1919 - Book: 39 - Page: 312 - Number: 1236.
Matrose (Sailor) Fortmann, who was a sailor in the German Navy during the First World War, died in the Amherst Internment Camp from the haemorrhaging of a stomach ulcer.
Married, born in Germany, 36 years old and a stone mason by trade, he was a POW, held at the Internment Camp in Amherst, Nova Scotia. In August 1914 he was one of the German sailors taken prisoner off the ship “Kaiser Wilhelm Der Grosser” when it was intercepted and captured in the South Atlantic Ocean. Originally held on McNab’s Island, in Halifax Harbour, the German prisoners were later moved to the Amherst camp in Cumberland County; it was located in an iron foundry on the corner of Park and Hickman Streets in Amherst.
Those POW inmates who died while being held here were laid to rest in the Amherst Cemetery; there is a monument at the rear of this cemetery which lists their names. In 1970, on a joint request from the Commonwealth and the German war commissions, the remains of all German POWs who died while at this Canadian war internment camp were exhumed and reburied in the Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, cemetery.
Josef ‘Fortmawn’ (sic), died 8 Jan 1919 in Amherst, Cumberland County; death record can be found in Registration Year: 1919 - Book: 39 - Page: 312 - Number: 1236.
Matrose (Sailor) Fortmann, who was a sailor in the German Navy during the First World War, died in the Amherst Internment Camp from the haemorrhaging of a stomach ulcer.
Married, born in Germany, 36 years old and a stone mason by trade, he was a POW, held at the Internment Camp in Amherst, Nova Scotia. In August 1914 he was one of the German sailors taken prisoner off the ship “Kaiser Wilhelm Der Grosser” when it was intercepted and captured in the South Atlantic Ocean. Originally held on McNab’s Island, in Halifax Harbour, the German prisoners were later moved to the Amherst camp in Cumberland County; it was located in an iron foundry on the corner of Park and Hickman Streets in Amherst.
Those POW inmates who died while being held here were laid to rest in the Amherst Cemetery; there is a monument at the rear of this cemetery which lists their names. In 1970, on a joint request from the Commonwealth and the German war commissions, the remains of all German POWs who died while at this Canadian war internment camp were exhumed and reburied in the Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, cemetery.
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