My father in law, Allan MacLeod, was a prisoner in Stalag V111B for 4 years during the war. He was Scots Guard. POW No 29418. Camp No 344. Captured in Egypt 23/11/1941 POW until 13/05/1945. We know he worked in the coal mines but he never told us very much about his time there. Received: […]

My father George Robertson (marked with Tippex) was a POW in Lamsdorf, he was wounded at Dunkirk and taken to Zydcoote hospital, escaped from there and made his way through France. Captured and taken to Lamsdorf.  Received: November 2013From: Gina HendersonOn Behalf of: George Robertson

My grandfather was William George Beachey b 8/03/1906 died 24/06/1983. He was in the Ox and Bucks light infantry and was captured at Watou on the 29/05/1940. His surname was changed when he married my nanna from Beechey to Beachey but for some reason he must have reverted back to using Beechey as this is […]

My father: James Garner, Lancashire Fusiliers, POW number 1206 was injured during an air attack on Saturday 2nd December, 1944, when a shelter within the camp was directly hit by bombs. His cousin: Gunner John Goring, Royal Artillery, POW No.1053 was killed during the same allied air raid; they were next to each other in […]

My uncle (Charles Andrews aka Charlie/Nob) was with the Highland Light Infantry as part of the BEF in France 1940.  He was injured and captured in Ypres on the 26th May 1940 and transported first to Stalag X11A in Germany and then on to Stalag VIIIb in Poland where he remained until repatriation in October 1943.  His diary gives […]

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