Add Information to Record of a Person who served during the Second World War on The Wartime Memories Project Website
Add Information to Record of a Person who served during the Second World War on The Wartime Memories Project Website
Additions will be checked before being published on the website and where possible will be forwarded to the person who submitted the original entries. Your contact details will not be forwarded, but they can send a reply via this messaging system.
205411
Henry Thomas Compton
British Army 2nd Btn. Traffic Control coy. Royal Army Service Corps
My father, Herbert Dawson, served in Malta and Leros. He was taken prisoner on Leros and was transported to prison camp in Germany. He was in Stalag XIA. But he was in an out for station work camp in Elbigerode.
He was able to visit Elbingerode a few years before he passed away.
"Faugh-a-Ballagh" - battle cry of Irish origin, meaning "clear the way".