My great grandfather, William Herbert Pointon, was born 1862 in Measham, Leicestershire, and died in 1931. In the 1921 census, he shows up on a ‘Return of All Officers and Other Ranks or Ratings on Service’ at Donington Hall, Castle Donington, Leicestershire, which was a German prisoner-of-war camp until 1919. His entry shows him 58, a private in the infantry, born in Measham, married, and listed
