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[Trojan]

Many thanks for the response Brian, much appreciated. I'll look foward to the reading and following up the avenue you suggest.

[Scaramooch]

Hi guys,
Me again. Brian (ADM199) can you possibly see what you have on the following two gents. pte NP Williams 304765 and a pte James Langa. I tried to post you on PM but could not get the documents loaded. Will try again tonight. James was a black soldier from South Africa I do not have a number for him.

Regards
Peter

[ADM199]

Originally Posted by Scaramooch

Hi guys,
Me again. Brian (ADM199) can you possibly see what you have on the following two gents. pte NP Williams 304765 and a pte James Langa. I tried to post you on PM but could not get the documents loaded. Will try again tonight. James was a black soldier from South Africa I do not have a number for him.

Regards
Peter

Hi Peter,
unfortunately I haven't copied the Italian Records for these two groups.To be honest I ran out of credit on my copying card and at the time was too busy to do any more. I do intend to rectify this in June.

What I do have is the following ; Gnr.Williams N.P. C.304765 Stalag 7A Moosburg. P.O.W. No. 133599 --- Pte.Langa J. N.22120 Also Stalag 7A. P.O.W. No.132623.
Hope this helps.

Brian

[Scaramooch]

Hi Brian,
Boy I do not know where you get your info from, but thank you very much. I will see what I can trace further from my side. These gents was witness to a very unfortunate situation and I want to see, if possibly, they had it recorded. I got side tracked last night, but will send the info soon. Thank you for the info, much appreciated.

Peter

[penderel]

I have a quick question about stalag 8b. My Grandfather was there. But his records show that he was in Marseilles (ifthe spelling is wrong sorry to the French) and then in Egypt both very early in Feb, I think the 8th of Feb. Then by the end of Feb early March he was in hospital in Durban South Africa.

So my question is, does that not seem early to get out of Stalag 8b and be back in Durban so fast? Maybe he was very sick/injured? But to end up in Marseilles on the 8th of Feb 1945?

Thanks.

[ADM199]

Originally Posted by penderel

I have a quick question about stalag 8b. My Grandfather was there. But his records show that he was in Marseilles (ifthe spelling is wrong sorry to the French) and then in Egypt both very early in Feb, I think the 8th of Feb. Then by the end of Feb early March he was in hospital in Durban South Africa.

So my question is, does that not seem early to get out of Stalag 8b and be back in Durban so fast? Maybe he was very sick/injured? But to end up in Marseilles on the 8th of Feb 1945?

Thanks.

There were quite a few repatriations of P.O.W. who were no longer considered to be capable of carrying arms through illness or disabilities. As such were given medicals and if they were assessed as being in this catagory they were repatriated with Red Cross assistance.