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hello there are others souvenirs memoirs references to Riom from British POW's than

- George Richard Casse and his Escape to the Allied Army near Clermont

- Prisoners of War in France from 1804 to 1814: Being the Adventures of John Tregerthen Short and Thomas Williams of St. Ives, Cornwall

-it seems there is a third reference I can't read in the Scots Magazine volume 17 (1932)??

actually Riom was largely more a Prussian POW's Depot than British,

only 5 British dead vs 102 Prussians POW's dead in 1813-1814, and two of them 65 and 60 years old :

Merne David from Durhamshire ✟ 65 years old 8th march 1814 sailor on Amie de Judith (sic)

one hour baby born and dead in Riom named Catherine, daughter of a sailor with his wife at the Depot, declared by two fellow sailors

an other sailor Samuel Werdswath ✟ 26 years old

in april 1814

Mallet Guillaume (William probably) ✟ 60 years old from Devonshire

Jones Jean (John probably) ✟ 32 years old from the isle of Wight 7th Dragoons

Rausley George ✟ 23 years old from Harsterre (sic)