501489 Gnr. Harold Forden British Army 124 Field Regiment Royal Artillery My deceased Father was in Stalag 4g I have found out some info on the camp but not that much.
As you can see my Father was a gunner in the Royal Artillery during WW2. He saw action at Dunkirk & Africa before being captured at the fall of Tobruk.
Gunner Harold Forden, Royal Artillery
Enlisted into Royal Artillery Regular Army & posted to Depot
04/01/39
Posted to 1st Training Regiment
11/01/39
Posted to 22nd Field Regiment
15/04/39
Posted to 1st General Base Depot
19/04/40
Posted to 3rd Division
10/06/40
Posted to 76th (Highland) Field Regiment
11/06/40
Posted to Depot
21/06/40
Posted to 2nd Reserve Regiment
22/06/40
Posted to 124 Field Regiment
26/06/40
Reported Missing
20/06/42
Confirmed Prisoner of War
13/01/43
Repatriated to UK
14/05/45
Posted to 202 Field Regiment
12/07/45
Attached to Chillwell Motor Transport Group
02/08/45
Posted to 2nd Motor Transport Group
22/08/45
Released to Army Reserve
11/07/46
Discharged from Reserve Liability 30 June 1959
Auth: Navy, Army and Air Forces Reserve Act 1959
Service with Colours: 04/01/39 to 10/07/46
Overseas Service:
British Expeditionary Force 02/10/39 to 01/06/40
Middle East Force 19/05/41 to 30/11/41
Iraq 01/12/41 to 12/02/42
Egypt 13/02/42 to 19/06/42
Prisoner of War 20/06/42 to 13/05/45 Italy, Germany Stalag 4b and 4g
Dad was prisoner of war in Italy, but no records show which camp. He may have been kept in North Africa for some time, before going over to Italy. They were usually shipped into Italy via Benghazi or Brindisi. . After Italy surrendered they were transferred to Austria or Germany. Dad was held in Stalag 4B. The camp opened Oct.39. & was Liberated 23rd April 45. It was located in Muhlberg district 4. he was transferred to 4G on 14/10/43 This was at Oschatz eastern Germany, to the south east of Leipzig, in the direction of Meissen & Dresden & near to the south west of Muhlberg. There were only 20 men permanently based in the camp, the other 4,400 were out on working parties on farms, factories, mines etc.
Stalag 4G was an administrative and holding centre and most of the POWs were assigned to work parties (arbeits kommandos).
Any information, photographs of 4g would be greatly appreciated.
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