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Pte. Andrew Nisbet
British Army Black Watch
from:Glasgow
My father Andrew Nisbet who is now 94 years old and lives in Kent. He joined the army in Glasgow in 1937 when he was 17 years old. He served with the Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) and was stationed at Fort William in Scotland. In 1939 he was sent to France to fight and was captured at the age of 19 years. His pow no is 981 He spent the war in prison camps in Germany and Poland. For three years he was working down the coal mines at E 209 Bobrek. He was also on the long march luckily he was in the groups of men that westward and was liberated by the Americans. While he was in the coal mines he had dysentery and his nose broken by a German rifle butt.