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. Edward Wallace Power

British Army Royal Artillery

from:Manchester

Father, Eddie Power was captured at Dunkirk being part of the BEF as part of a rear guard protecting the troops attempting to escape back to Britain. Dad was transported to a prison camp in Torun, Poland by rail where he and other pows were treated as slave labour during their time in POW camp Stalag XXA. Later he endured the cruel long march during which he spent time in a hospital after collapsing through malnutrition and exhaustion.

On return to the UK he weighed less than 6 stone and was suffering from jaundice. At the sight of him his mother suffered a stroke from which she eventually died. Dad suffered the effects of his time of incarceration and ill treatment for the rest of his life.



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