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Dvr. Bernard Cashmore
British Army 19th Coy. Royal Army Service Corps
from:Millhouse Road, South Yardley, Birmingham
My dad, Bernard Cashmore, was deployed from Egypt on 17th March 1941 from the Port of Alexandra, arriving in Greece on the 18th.
He was captured at Kalamanta on 29th of April 1941, and was held POW in Stalag XV111A Austria from 29th June 1941 until 3rd July 1941, when he was transferred to a working camp at Zollfield from 5th July until 14th November 1941 working on railway line laying. He was then transferred to another working camp - Steindorf Karten - from 14th November 1941 until 4th April 1942 doing the same work as he did at Zollfield.
He went back to Stalag XV111A on 5th April 1942 until 6th July 1942 when he was transferred to another working camp at Klagenfurt Karten from 6th July until 7th May 1945 working on rail and road.