259731 Pte. Thomas Whittaker British Army 10th (Parachute) Btn. South Lancashire Regiment
from:Warrington, Lancashire I recently found out through a cutting taken from the Warrington Guardian that my father, Thomas Whittaker, who was a paratrooper during WW2 and was taken prisoner next to the railway lines in Nijmegen near Arnhem, was taken to Stalag 12a near Limburg an der Lahn, Germany. The report from the Guardian says my father sent a letter to his mother stating that he was alive and well but not to reply due to him being moved to another camp. I know he was then moved to Stalag 4b, where he remained until he was liberated by the Russians and returned home to England. None of us know how long he stayed at Stalag 12a, maybe a night, maybe weeks or months. I have looked up Stalag 4b and know it's near Mulhberg in what was East Germany. My grandmother had another son in service missing at the time, Harry Whittaker, who was with the Chindits in Burma. Fortunately, both sons returned home safely.
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