The Pegasus archive is a good site to visit if looking for pow camps and work camps have even found a photo of my dad in a work camp . Bit up setting as he looked thin and frail .but lots of photos mostly camp numbered
perhaps not as upsetting as if he didn't come back? You have to remember that in WW2 most people were thin, due to rationing and PoW Camps were regularly visited by the Red Cross in Italy and Germany. Being captured naturally is depressing, so don't read too much into a photo, especially if it was being taken for propaganda purposes, they'd deliberately look glum! If you want to know more about him, apply for his Service Records (if not done already) and in the meantime, Name, Rank and Number, plus whatever other details you have may turn up even more info, perhaps a happy photo!
UK, British Prisoners of War, 1939-1945 Name: E A Glover Rank: Fusilier Army Number: 4854190 Regiment: Royal Scots Fusiliers POW Number: 13814 Camp Type: Stalag Camp Number: 344 Camp Location: Lambinowice, Poland Record Office: Infantry Record Office, Perth Record Office Number: 16 This would be the last camp where he was seen by the ICRC - camp 344 does have several names: Lamsdorf Lambinowice Stalag VIII-B Lamsdorf was a German Army prisoner of war camp, later renumbered Stalag-344 TD
The POW camp does have its own web site - obviously not in 1944/1945 STALAG VIIIB 344 LAMSDORF might be worth a look as there may be details of your relative, or maybe you can add to their research. There quite a number of sites for this camp TD
When was he captured? Dunkirk or Sicily/Italy? The 2nd Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers was serving in Edinburgh on the outbreak of war under Scottish Command, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Walter Clutterbuck. In early October 1939 the battalion was grouped with the 2nd Seaforth Highlanders and 2nd Northants to create the 17th Infantry Brigade, which was assigned to the 5th Infantry Division. They were sent as an independent brigade group to France in late 1939 to join the rest of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) and were involved in the Battle of Dunkirk and had to be evacuated to England. ........... The battalion saw service fighting in Sicily. In 1944 the division fought in the Battle of Anzio in some of the fiercest fighting of the Italian Campaign thus far.
Yes thanks I'm on its site and got a photo which was dated thirty minutes after his capture by a member of this site
Hello there! i run the RSF website and indeed he was part of the battalion that stood on the Ypres-Comines canal, so that the BEF could be evacuated. My grandfather was in B Coy. Please do you have a photo of him before or after the war to add to the gallery of members of the battalion?
Hi , Is that you lain. You timed and dated that one from the bill Robinson collection .but thought I'd sent you a few. His pow one him in work camp e27 and a pathe news reel still of him.