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14-05-2006, 12:03 PM
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 | From Italy to Stalag 18A Wolfsburg Hi All In 1942 I believe my grandfather James Whitehouse Bombadier in the Royal Artillery, was captured at Tobruk, he was then taken to Vetralla in Italy. I have a postcard sent from my grandmother to him, sending it to PG 68 PM 300 Hut 11 Italy. Sometime after Italy capitulated he was transferred to Stalag 18A Wolfsburg in Austria as this is where he was at the end of the war. If I am correct I believe this camp was liberated by the 8th Army with whom he served. My questions on this are how did my grandfather get transferred from Italy to Austria and when. Would he have gone straight to that camp or would he have gone to other camps first. How did he get back to England once he had been liberated. Unfortunately I never spoke to him about this as he died when I was 9 years old. Thanks Karen  |
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14-05-2006, 02:51 PM
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| Legendary Member   Join Date: May 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia
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__________________ Spidge,  ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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14-05-2006, 03:07 PM
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Thoughts of freedom were ended when the Germans arrived on 13th, and we were quickly transferred to P.G 19 at Bologna in cattle trucks. Two days later we were on the way to southern Germany. Life as a POW in Southern Germany On 19th September, after 3 days by train in a cattle wagon with 60 mates and no food, we arrived at Stalag VIIIA Gorlitz Mays, near Dresden in South Germany. This was a holding camp for POWs, with over 500 of us in a hut. I received my POW ID 81828. Here we were allowed to play football and I learnt to box under the guidance of Ambrose (ABA middle weight champion) and John Evans (Army light heavyweight champion). On 6th October, I received my first Red Cross parcel for 2 months, and my new POW kit. We were sent out to work in local Kommandos (work camps). Life as a POW in Upper Silesia. On 5th November 1943, we were pushed into another closed cattle wagon at Stalag VIIIA Gorlitz Mays and transported to the extreme cold and snow of Upper Silesia.
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm | ||
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14-05-2006, 03:21 PM
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| From North Africa to Stalag XVIIIA A story here from Private Sydney Bebbington of the Cheshire Regiment after capture in North Africa describing his transport from North Africa through Italy then on to Germany. Hope this assists. http://www.pegasus-one.org/pow/sydney_bebbington.htm
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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