234756 Pte. Frank Rayburn British Army Gordon Highlanders from:Edinburgh Frank Rayburn, my stepfather, was taken prisoner as a result of the British Armies retreat at Dunkirk. As a Gordon Highlander he and many others were left fighting a rearguard action and was captured by the German Army.
The little I do know was that he was eventually transported to what is now Poland and worked on various farms. He spent the rest of the war as a prisoner of war until his release in 1945. He rarely spoke of his time as a prisoner. He was very young when captured and stayed in 'The Gordons' serving in Germany and The Far East until his eventual release in the late 1950s. He met my mother in 1961 and they married in 1962.
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