259964 Pte. James Jack British Army Seaforth Highlanders from:Aberdeen James Jack was captured at St Vallery, spent most of the war in POW Stalag XXB. He was with the Seaforth Highlanders who were made to fight on whilst Dunkirk was evacuated.
He was shot in leg. I have his diary with entries of others names and addresses. His diary gives dates when the Red Cross deliveries were made.
I have managed to get his Army records. Along with the parcels from his mum, he got parcels from Seaforth Highlanders and from the mother of Tommy Morris who was his closest friend who has also since passed away. He was from Bolton.
He escaped from the farm he was working in on the 12th of, I think, November and was recaptured on the 16th of same month.
He was transferred from Stalag XXA to Stalag XXB in October 1941 and worked in a farm in Steinhendorf, I think, it says until 1942. He worked in a number of farms Hockszehern being one of them.
I have a few names I found in his diary
- Lewis Beaton, Aberdeenshire
- James Robertson, Yorkshire
- Tommy Scott, Newcastle
- Albert Harris, Shropshire
- Louis Willem, England
- Ernest Bradly, Leeds
- David Hay, Aberdeen
- Gregor Wilson, Aberdeen
- George Howard, Huntingdon
- Cyril a Foster
- Richard Jarvis
- R V Griffon, Manchester
- Reginald Holmes, Somerset
- Andrew Burnt, Kirkaldy,
- Freddy Saunders, Kent
- Hugh Ponis, North Wales
There are many more names, unfortunately, they are hard to read, I would be happy to be contacted by any relatives from the above names,
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