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Interesting ts memoir (62pp) including an account of his enlistment in the 8th Battalion Worcestershire Regiment TA shortly before the outbreak of war, his service with that and the 9th Battalion at Quedgeley and Marlborough latterly as the driver of a Bren Gun Carrier before embarkation with the 8th Battalion (144th Brigade, 48th Division) in January 1940 for France, billeting at Moncheaux and Metz, then a move to Belgium following the German invasion and the retreat to Dunkirk where he was captured on 26 May, his journey to Lamsdorf camp (Stalag VIIIB) and then a working camp near Ehrenforst in Upper Silesia where he remained for around two years before returning to Lamsdorf after his refusal to work on the grounds of being an NCO, his second posting to a camp at Hohenfels in Bavaria [Stalag 383] where he remained until liberated by US troops in 1945, his repatriation to Great Britain and service after VE Day with the Northamptonshire Regiment before demobilisation, with good descriptions of camp conditions, the problems of food, hygiene and warmth, the prisoners' humour and recreation and relations with the German guards and Polish civilian workers
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Interesting ts memoir (62pp) including an account of his enlistment in the 8th Battalion Worcestershire Regiment TA shortly before the outbreak of war, his service with that and the 9th Battalion at Quedgeley and Marlborough latterly as the driver of a Bren Gun Carrier before embarkation with the 8th Battalion (144th Brigade, 48th Division) in January 1940 for France, billeting at Moncheaux and Metz, then a move to Belgium following the German invasion and the retreat to Dunkirk where he was captured on 26 May, his journey to Lamsdorf camp (Stalag VIIIB) and then a working camp near Ehrenforst in Upper Silesia where he remained for around two years before returning to Lamsdorf after his refusal to work on the grounds of being an NCO, his second posting to a camp at Hohenfels in Bavaria [Stalag 383] where he remained until liberated by US troops in 1945, his repatriation to Great Britain and service after VE Day with the Northamptonshire Regiment before demobilisation, with good descriptions of camp conditions, the problems of food, hygiene and warmth, the prisoners' humour and recreation and relations with the German guards and Polish civilian workers
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