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Pte. Frederick John Pax Harding
British Army Royal Sussex Regiment
from:Devon
Fred Harding told how he was on the Beach at Dunkirk carrying a pick helve where he was seriously wounded with 5 wounds from machine gunfire. He was left for dead. However, he was found by German Medics and treated in a local Military Hospital. He was then transported to Stalag XXB in Poland where he remained until being sent on what became the Long March.