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Any online resource for tracking allied POW's during WW2.
Hi All, My 1st post on here and hoping someone might be able to help. My Grandfather went out to Europe with the BEF at the start of the war. Survived Dunkirk and apparently ended up in the bag at the fall of Tobruk. He would never talk about the war much and died relatively young My Dad has a tatty little picture of himself aged about 4 wearing an ARP helmet and cowboy gunbelt that his Dad carried right through the war. (There was a larger penciled copy as well but that was stolen from my Grandfather before his return to the UK after the war). I'm wondering if there is anywhere where I could research where he was held etc. Long shot I know. Cheers, Mike.
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10-09-2010 04:37 PM
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Re: Any online resource for tracking allied POW's during WW2.
Hi Mike, welcome to the forum!
All I have is a list of camps:
Moosburg Online: Kriegsgefangenenlager (Liste)
Cheers, Ade.
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Re: Any online resource for tracking allied POW's during WW2.
I don't think there is anything online but you can visit the national archives at kew and look at the questionaires filled out by all returning P.O.Ws In there you might find the details you are looking for.
Kris...
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Re: Any online resource for tracking allied POW's during WW2.
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Re: Any online resource for tracking allied POW's during WW2.
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Adrian Stevenson
Fantastic!
Camp number 344,
POW Number 31295,
Name R. S. Shepherdson,
Rank C S M,
Army Number 4343570,
Regiment. East Yorks.
I've found out he was with the 4th East Yorks which was a territorial regiment taken mainly from the Hull area. They were basically wiped out near Tobruk, as far as my Dad can recall. My Grandad was forced to work down the mines in Poland and when the Russians got too close was force marched back to Germany. My Dad has a vague idea that his Dad spent time in Stalag 7B but has no clear idea where this bit of info' came from.
Last edited by MickyFinn; 10-13-2010 at 11:47 AM.
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Re: Any online resource for tracking allied POW's during WW2.
Nice to know you have made progress, so thanks for the update.
Cheers, Ade.
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Re: Any online resource for tracking allied POW's during WW2.
Cheers Ade, Answers coming thick and fast. Will update as more info' comes in. Have now confirmed he was at Stalag 334 which was re-named Stalag VIIIB Not VIIB as my Dad thought,
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Re: Any online resource for tracking allied POW's during WW2.
Hi Mike, thanks for the update on your Grandad. Always nice to know if progress has been made.
Cheers, Ade.
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Re: Any online resource for tracking allied POW's during WW2.
Exellent result Mike , it shows how with the correct info and some hard work what can be found about about events 70 years ago !!
The gates of hell were opened and we accepted the invitation to enter" 26/880 Lance Sgt, Edward Dyke. 26th Bn Northumberland Fusiliers , ( 3rd Tyneside Irish )
1st July 1916
Thought shall be the harder , heart the keener,
Courage the greater as our strength faileth.
Here lies our leader ,in the dust of his greatness.
Who leaves him now , be damned forever.
We who are old now shall not leave this Battle,
But lie at his feet , in the dust with our leader
House Carles at the Battle of Hastings
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