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 | Trying to trace what happened to my Great Uncle Pte Snell Hi all  I am trying to research what happened to my great uncle, he was :- 6143447 Pte Snell 2/6 Btn East Surrey Regiment. He was taken prisoner at St Valery in June 1940 and I have tracked down his grave through the War Graves Commission. His grave is in the Berlin Cemetery. He died on 19 February 1945, aged 27. Can anyone help with tracking down which POW camps he would have been sent to etc. As he is buried in Berlin I have a suspicion he died as a result of the forced marches towards the end of the war but I don't know for certain. Any help would be very much appreciated. Many thanks |
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| Legendary Member   Join Date: May 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia
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 | Surprise, surprise there are a few at differing prices. (GBP) http://www.bookfinder4u.com/IsbnSear...14&mode=direct
__________________ 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 Last edited by spidge; 04-07-2006 at 10:24 AM. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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04-07-2006, 05:33 PM
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| Arthur Many thanks for the information - it is very much appreciated. I can now research a little further and try to trace his path. The links for the book are good too spidge  Last edited by JanM; 04-07-2006 at 07:36 PM. |
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05-07-2006, 11:09 AM
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| Very Senior Member   Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Looking for a Landing Zone
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| Hi JanM You could try contacting the War Pensions Agency, as they now hold German POW record cards, if you ask them nicely they might be able to give you a copy of great uncles. War Pensions Agency Tomlinson House Norcross Blackpool FY5 3WP If you do get in contact with them, please let us know how you got on.
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05-07-2006, 04:42 PM
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| Very Senior Member   Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Newark, NJ, and Christchurch, NZ
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|  Hi there! JanM, welcome aboard, good luck with your quest and our thanks for your great-uncle's service and sacrifice for Crown and Country. You'll enjoy it here!
__________________ "My intensity is intense." -- Roger Clemens "We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender." -- Winston Churchill. "I am not a hero. The heroes are all dead. I am a survivor." -- Sgt. William Guarnere, Easy Company, 506th Parachute Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. Check out my little contributions to World War II history at my web pages: World War II Plus 55 or http://davidhlippman.wildbillguarnere.com |
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