126573 Pte. william Allen Army Queens Royal West Surrey from:Aldershot, Hants My late father’s service, was with The Queen’s Royal West Surrey regiment. He was captured at Arras in France, his regimental number was 6090475,and his p.o.w. number was 6154, and he was like a lot more gallant men.and sent to Stalag xxa at Thorn Poland, he worked on a farm, at the time of sending this letter I’m tracing my family tree, which I started when my father was alive, but as he died about 30years ago, I’ts left a blank in my research ,so if theres some-one who knew my father, and can send me any infomation, when he was working on the farm, he told me that to keep their farm, the farmer had to sign papers so they could keep their farm, and become "volks deutscher" which means second class "german citizen" so the polish farmers could keep their land and their sons were sent into the German army. As for the death march he was in that too, he also told me that he and many others had to dig up a mass grave of which the bodies they got out were those of babies, who were buried alive, so bullets, were saved, and when my twin brother and myself were born, he had a nervous break-down ,as it all came back, I felt that I had to write this as a lot of people didn’t know what when on.
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