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Pte. Alexander Scott Killoch Sime
British Army 6th Btn. Seaforth Highlanders
from:Bogton Llanbryde, Morayshire
Dad, Alexander Sime was a POW held in the hospital block. He had a shrapnel wound on his thigh and could not walk properly. He remembers that the guards were not very vigilant and that the POWs had managed to detach a gas pipe and they had lit it. It had a huge long flame but they were able to make tea dangling their cups or billies over the end of the flame. He was returned home on a boat in 1942. He weighed six and a half stone and was over 6 foot. It was turned into the Norwegian POW camp after they were all sent home.