Add Information to Record of a Person who served during the Second World War on The Wartime Memories Project Website

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Pte. George Edgar Ford

British Army 7th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment

from:Coventry

(d.9th Sep 1940)

George Edgar Ford was an apprentice draughtsman working at Alfred Herbert in Coventry before the war. He was captured in the defence of Dunkirk on either the 27th or 28th May 1940. He was taken to Stalag XXA.

Unfortunately, he died there. According to the official report from Germany he died from 'cardiac weakness following internal inflammation and phthisis' on 9th of September 1940. He had written to his parents: "I don't like to keep asking for parcels.... our major interest here is where our next bit of food is coming from."



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