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Want to know more about Stalag 3A Prisoner of War Camp? There are:97 items tagged Stalag 3A Prisoner of War Camp available in our Library
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Fus. John Gorman Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers I have a POW Postcard sent on the 25th of January 1944 from the Camp by John Gorman 269612, a prisoner in Stalag 3a, to his mother at 630 Clonard Road, Dublin. I'm afraid I have no other info
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Pte. Robert Booth Seaforth Highlanders My father, Robert Booth was 1 of 4 brothers, he was born in Newark New Jersey USA. He first joined up on the 21st September 1922 and served in India for 6 years from 1924 - 1932. He was then back home till 1939 and he was with the BEF in France from Oct 1939 to June 1940 when he was taken prisoner. He was transported to Luckenwalde, Brandenburg POW Camp and was there for the remainder of the war. He was discharged 21st April 1946 after serving 23 years 214 days.
He told me that he was captured at Dunkirk during the evacuation he was pulled onto a ship and in the process his kilt had come off unfortunately the ship was shelled and sunk. He was then captured and sent to Stalag 111a.
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Mauritius Maes My grandfather Mauritius Maes was a prisoner of war at Stalag IIIA.
I have some photos in my possession and am lookong for more information and/or photos.
Thank you in advance.
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Kenneth L Barry I am currently renovating a house
in the north of England, and while digging the garden last week I
found a dog tag for a US serviceman by the name of Kenneth L Barry.
Research via the internet shows that he was captured in France and was
sent to Stalag 3A and was also liberated by the Russians. I'm wondering
if anyone out there has any memories of this guy or better still knows
kept in touch with him after the War. I would love to get to the bottom
of this mystery.
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Francis Gorgen Gorgen My grandfather was captured at Kasserine and sent to Stalag 3B and then Stalag 3A. His name is Francis Gorgen. He spent the war as a POW and was liberated by the Russians. He never spoke of any of the experiences he endured, but did curse the Red Cross for trading items meant for the POWs to the Germans. Any info about Stalag 3A or B would be appreciated.
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Sgt. William McLaughlin 2nd Btn. Royal Irish Fusiliers My Grandfather was held in 3 POW camps. I have obtained this information and associated dates from the MOD records, so they are as accurate as they can be. His details are as follows:
6976070 Sergeant William McLaughlin, Army Catering Corps.
He was posted to 2nd Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers on 19th August 1943 and was reported missing, prisoner of war, Leros, Aegean on 16th November 1943.
Records show that on 6th January 1944 he was in STALAG 11A Aletbgrabow.
By 19th April 1944 he was in STALAG 357 Orbke and by 2nd June 1944 he was in STALAG 3A, Luckenwalde, Germany.
He was repatriated to the UK on 26th May 1945.
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Sgt. Harold Leroy "Bud" Osborne Harold Osborne, born 28th of June 1919 was a married man with a 5 yr old child when he was drafted on 3rd of June 1944 and sent to Ft. Dix, New Jersey.
He was a machine gunner with the infantry in Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany.
He fought from Oct. 1st until December 15, when he and 11 American soldiers were surrounded and captured during the Battle of the Bulge. Before his capture he was hospitalized for a short time for shrapnel wounds to the back and arm. He was promoted to Sgt. after that hospitalization.
He was first sent to an interrogation centre at Brandenburg, Prussia. He was sent to his work assignment Stalag 3A and work camps (also Oflag 3-6) Luckenwalde. The camp was liberated by the Soviets on 21st of April 1945.
He said a diet of turnips for 4 months was more than his body could endure. His weight at his liberation was 80 lbs.
He was sent to a hospital in England where he spent almost a year.
He returned to the town of his birth and to his wife and child. Pompton Lakes, Passaic, NJ was to be his home from birth until his death He and his wife Martha Munson Osborne had two sons, Harold Robert and Donald Leroy Osborne.
He was sSon of Roy B. & Helen (Cahill) deceased and has sisters: Helen, Edith Masker and Betty Perkonio, brothers: Douglas, David & Wesley deceased, and a half sister Patricia Osborne Joppien.
Before retiring, he was employed as a coiler for E.I. DuPont (Pompton Lakes,NJ) for 38 years.
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PFC. Donald L. Huffman 310th Infantry Regiment Donald L. Huffma was captured on 16th of December 1944 at Kesternich, Germany. His unit had been ordered to stay in a ditch during a tank attack and wait there until more troops arrived. They waited for hours, but no troops arrived. Finding an empty house nearby, he and some others moved at dusk into the house and waited for dawn in hopes that American troops would arrive and take out the Germans. During the night they could hear equipment being moved and when they looked out they could see the road was full of German troops. The next morning, three German officers who spoke English told them that they could surrender or be burned out with flame throwers. So they surrendered.
Donald and his fellow POWs were taken by truck to a collection point at Duisberg. They were loaded into cattle cars and for 2 days and 3 nights, without food or water, were transported to Stalag III-A in Luckenwalde. There, he volunteered for a work detail and was transported through Berlin to a satellite camp in Perleberg. His main diet consisted of rutabaga soup. In his almost 6 months in captivity, he lost 50 pounds. He and his comrades were rescued by US Army as the POWs were being marched to Lubeck, 100 miles away from Perleberg.
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Pvt. Warren Harding Decker 509th PIR 101st Airborne Division Pvt. Warren H. Decker was wounded and captured during "suicide" mission of the El Djem Bridge on December 27, 1942. POW camps included PG 98, PG 59, Stalag VI, Stalag IV, the "Black March away from Allied/Soviet forces, Wobbelin concentration camp, Stalag IIIA, Stalag IIB, then finally Stalag VIIA.
He remained a POW until liberated by 14th Armored Division of Patton's 3rd Army at Stalag VIIA, Moosburg, Bavaria, Germany on April 29, 1945.
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Fus. John Alexander Creery Royal Scots Fusiliers My father, John Creery, was a prisoner of war for 5 years. I have learnt that he was in Luckenwalde Camp Stalag IIIA. I remember him telling us stories about being so hungry he ate raw cabbages and raw potatoes and of finding men hanging in the toilets that couldn't take any more. I have to say none of his stories were happy ones. The only thing I found funny was someone gave him some cigarettes but he didn't smoke. So, he asked someone to try and get him some toothpaste as he was proud of his teeth and missed cleaning them. He did get some which he was glad for.
I remember my granny saying he went away a young man with lots of curly hair and came back like an old man with very little hair. He was awarded his wages on a cart by the lord mayor of his home town which was the Shankill Road, Belfast.
He continued to work for the British Legion until he retired.
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S/Sgt. Ray Halliburton K Co., 3rd Btn. 10th Infantry Regiment Ray Halliburton was drafted into the US Army in 1944 and went to basic training at Camp Walters, in Mineral Wells, Texas. He was a corporal when he went ashore in France in July 1944, one month after D-Day. He was a member of K Company, 3rd Battalion, 10th Infantry Regiment, 5th Infantry (Red Diamond) Division, in Gen. George Patton's Third Army.
He fought three months of fierce combat across 500 miles and had risen to staff sergeant and squad leader. He was 20 years old. He was captured on 5th of December 1944, just outside Saarbrucken, Germany, when his unit advanced ahead of the others. In April 1945, the Soviet Army liberated him from Stalag 3A in Luckenwalde, Germany.
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Lt. Howard Kenneth Hinds Co. E, 414th Infantry Regiment    Lt. Howard Hinds was captured in Belgium on 24th of October 1944. He was moved to several interim camps and ultimately to Oflag 64 in Szubin, Poland. On or about 24th of January 1945, he was marched from Oflag 64, in one of seven columns, westward into Germany. He arrived at Stalag IIIA in March 1945. The Russians liberated them in late April. What the Germans did not take (food, blankets, etc.) when they fled, the Russians commandeered.
Lt. Hinds heard talk of being taken to Odessa, Russia. From the camp, he could see POWs being loaded into rail cars. He had already been in rail cars on the trip from Belgium to Poland. He knew Odessa was not the direction he wanted to go, so he decided to escape. The Russian guards were neither numerous nor vigilant. When Lt. Hinds saw his opportunity, he ran for an opening in a fence. He could hear footsteps behind him and expected to be shot. As he rolled under the fence and looked around, he saw a French officer who had also decided to escape. They hiked by night and hid by day. At one point they stole a chicken to eat and later bicycles. They had no common language and could only communicate using hand gestures. They finally made it to an American unit and were repatriated.
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Pte. Charles Frederick Webb Parachute Regiment My Uncle, Charlie Webb, served in the Parachute Regiment in WW2. He parachuted down near Arnhem where he was shot in the leg and was taken prisoner. He was originally taken to Stalag 11b in 1944, but in January 1945 was moved to Stalag 3a and was there when the camp was liberated. Charlie died in 2009.
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Cpl. Patrick McGovern Royal Irish Fusiliers My uncle, Pat McGovern, joined the Royal Irish Fusiliers, the same regiment his father, Thomas McGovern, was in during WW1.
He saw action in the Atlantic, Malta, Italy, and Monte Cassino. He was captured at Leron. I understand from my cousin, that he was captured as a POW on the Greek island of Leros before being transported to Berlin via Athens. He then served the remainder of the war in Stalag IIIA, Luckenwalde. I personally recall seeing his German Arbeidspasse, so I assume like many others he was sent out to labour locally.
We have photos of his medals which include an award for gallantry. I am still researching the detail of his medals.
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Pte. John Andrew Richard "Irish" Thompson Essex Scottish Regiment My father, John Thompson, joined the 2nd World War effort through the Canadian armed forces on 20th of May 1940.
He had left his home in Limivady Ireland to find work and a better life and had been working as a farm hand in the Leamington area before joining up. He often recalled that his motivation for joining was related to protecting his beloved Ireland and his family still living there. He believed that if England were to fall to the Germans then Ireland would surely follow, but of course not without a fight.
Dad did basic training in Canada and subsequently trained as a commando in Britain before being deployed by ship n the infamous raid on Dieppe. Being one of the first off the boats he was fortunate to make it to the beach wall before the Germans opened up in full force. During the course of the battle that fateful morning he was badly wounded by a mortar blast. He recalled German soldiers walking down the beach taking prisoners and shooting those who death had not yet released from their hell. He tried to feign death amongst other dead soldiers where he lay at the bottom of a mortar crater on the beach. However the Germans, discovered him and took him prisoner. He spent the remainder of the war as a prisoner being shunted to several different camps, the last being Stalag IIIa in Luckenwalde. He told me of the generally poor living conditions there, with little food, terrible hygiene and rampant disease. Many men were afflicted by lice and dysentery. He noted that he often traded cigarettes or chocolate provided through the Red Cross with German guards or with Italian prisoners of war, for bread and anything else he could get to eat.
He participated in various work parties, under guard outside of the camp. As the war came to an end, he recalled the sight of the Russian army coming in to liberate the camp and through which he was eventually repatriated through England back to Canada. He was awarded the Dieppe medal, the Canadian volunteer service medal and the 1939-45 star defense medal. He received his discharge on 27th of October 1945 from the Wosely Barracks in Windsor, Ontario.
Dad suffered both physically and mentally as the result of the poorly treated wounds and his horrific war experiences. In midlife, he was hospitalized and treated for a nervous breakdown which would now undoubtedly be referred to as post-traumatic stress disorder.
Despite this, Dad enjoyed life, particularly in the outdoor and was an avid fisherman and hunter through his entire life. He became a highly successful buyer for the Simccoe Leaf Tobacco Company in Simcoe Ontario, and ultimately a Vice-President of that organization.
In 1952, he married Jean Agnes Robertson, who had been in the Women's Air Force, stationed at the bomber training school in Jarvis Ontario. They had two sons, Kevin Richard Thompson and Dean Gordon Thompson who remember, honor and respect him for the many sacrifices he made not only for his immediate family, but for his native country of Ireland and his adopted country of Canada as well.
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Fus. John Gorman Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers I have a POW Postcard sent on the 25th of January 1944 from the Camp by John Gorman 269612, a prisoner in Stalag 3a, to his mother at 630 Clonard Road, Dublin. I'm afraid I have no other info
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Pte. Robert Booth Seaforth Highlanders My father, Robert Booth was 1 of 4 brothers, he was born in Newark New Jersey USA. He first joined up on the 21st September 1922 and served in India for 6 years from 1924 - 1932. He was then back home till 1939 and he was with the BEF in France from Oct 1939 to June 1940 when he was taken prisoner. He was transported to Luckenwalde, Brandenburg POW Camp and was there for the remainder of the war. He was discharged 21st April 1946 after serving 23 years 214 days.
He told me that he was captured at Dunkirk during the evacuation he was pulled onto a ship and in the process his kilt had come off unfortunately the ship was shelled and sunk. He was then captured and sent to Stalag 111a.
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Mauritius Maes My grandfather Mauritius Maes was a prisoner of war at Stalag IIIA.
I have some photos in my possession and am lookong for more information and/or photos.
Thank you in advance.
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Kenneth L Barry I am currently renovating a house
in the north of England, and while digging the garden last week I
found a dog tag for a US serviceman by the name of Kenneth L Barry.
Research via the internet shows that he was captured in France and was
sent to Stalag 3A and was also liberated by the Russians. I'm wondering
if anyone out there has any memories of this guy or better still knows
kept in touch with him after the War. I would love to get to the bottom
of this mystery.
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Francis Gorgen Gorgen My grandfather was captured at Kasserine and sent to Stalag 3B and then Stalag 3A. His name is Francis Gorgen. He spent the war as a POW and was liberated by the Russians. He never spoke of any of the experiences he endured, but did curse the Red Cross for trading items meant for the POWs to the Germans. Any info about Stalag 3A or B would be appreciated.
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Sgt. William McLaughlin 2nd Btn. Royal Irish Fusiliers My Grandfather was held in 3 POW camps. I have obtained this information and associated dates from the MOD records, so they are as accurate as they can be. His details are as follows:
6976070 Sergeant William McLaughlin, Army Catering Corps.
He was posted to 2nd Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers on 19th August 1943 and was reported missing, prisoner of war, Leros, Aegean on 16th November 1943.
Records show that on 6th January 1944 he was in STALAG 11A Aletbgrabow.
By 19th April 1944 he was in STALAG 357 Orbke and by 2nd June 1944 he was in STALAG 3A, Luckenwalde, Germany.
He was repatriated to the UK on 26th May 1945.
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Sgt. Harold Leroy "Bud" Osborne Harold Osborne, born 28th of June 1919 was a married man with a 5 yr old child when he was drafted on 3rd of June 1944 and sent to Ft. Dix, New Jersey.
He was a machine gunner with the infantry in Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany.
He fought from Oct. 1st until December 15, when he and 11 American soldiers were surrounded and captured during the Battle of the Bulge. Before his capture he was hospitalized for a short time for shrapnel wounds to the back and arm. He was promoted to Sgt. after that hospitalization.
He was first sent to an interrogation centre at Brandenburg, Prussia. He was sent to his work assignment Stalag 3A and work camps (also Oflag 3-6) Luckenwalde. The camp was liberated by the Soviets on 21st of April 1945.
He said a diet of turnips for 4 months was more than his body could endure. His weight at his liberation was 80 lbs.
He was sent to a hospital in England where he spent almost a year.
He returned to the town of his birth and to his wife and child. Pompton Lakes, Passaic, NJ was to be his home from birth until his death He and his wife Martha Munson Osborne had two sons, Harold Robert and Donald Leroy Osborne.
He was sSon of Roy B. & Helen (Cahill) deceased and has sisters: Helen, Edith Masker and Betty Perkonio, brothers: Douglas, David & Wesley deceased, and a half sister Patricia Osborne Joppien.
Before retiring, he was employed as a coiler for E.I. DuPont (Pompton Lakes,NJ) for 38 years.
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PFC. Donald L. Huffman 310th Infantry Regiment Donald L. Huffma was captured on 16th of December 1944 at Kesternich, Germany. His unit had been ordered to stay in a ditch during a tank attack and wait there until more troops arrived. They waited for hours, but no troops arrived. Finding an empty house nearby, he and some others moved at dusk into the house and waited for dawn in hopes that American troops would arrive and take out the Germans. During the night they could hear equipment being moved and when they looked out they could see the road was full of German troops. The next morning, three German officers who spoke English told them that they could surrender or be burned out with flame throwers. So they surrendered.
Donald and his fellow POWs were taken by truck to a collection point at Duisberg. They were loaded into cattle cars and for 2 days and 3 nights, without food or water, were transported to Stalag III-A in Luckenwalde. There, he volunteered for a work detail and was transported through Berlin to a satellite camp in Perleberg. His main diet consisted of rutabaga soup. In his almost 6 months in captivity, he lost 50 pounds. He and his comrades were rescued by US Army as the POWs were being marched to Lubeck, 100 miles away from Perleberg.
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Pvt. Warren Harding Decker 509th PIR 101st Airborne Division Pvt. Warren H. Decker was wounded and captured during "suicide" mission of the El Djem Bridge on December 27, 1942. POW camps included PG 98, PG 59, Stalag VI, Stalag IV, the "Black March away from Allied/Soviet forces, Wobbelin concentration camp, Stalag IIIA, Stalag IIB, then finally Stalag VIIA.
He remained a POW until liberated by 14th Armored Division of Patton's 3rd Army at Stalag VIIA, Moosburg, Bavaria, Germany on April 29, 1945.
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Fus. John Alexander Creery Royal Scots Fusiliers My father, John Creery, was a prisoner of war for 5 years. I have learnt that he was in Luckenwalde Camp Stalag IIIA. I remember him telling us stories about being so hungry he ate raw cabbages and raw potatoes and of finding men hanging in the toilets that couldn't take any more. I have to say none of his stories were happy ones. The only thing I found funny was someone gave him some cigarettes but he didn't smoke. So, he asked someone to try and get him some toothpaste as he was proud of his teeth and missed cleaning them. He did get some which he was glad for.
I remember my granny saying he went away a young man with lots of curly hair and came back like an old man with very little hair. He was awarded his wages on a cart by the lord mayor of his home town which was the Shankill Road, Belfast.
He continued to work for the British Legion until he retired.
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S/Sgt. Ray Halliburton K Co., 3rd Btn. 10th Infantry Regiment Ray Halliburton was drafted into the US Army in 1944 and went to basic training at Camp Walters, in Mineral Wells, Texas. He was a corporal when he went ashore in France in July 1944, one month after D-Day. He was a member of K Company, 3rd Battalion, 10th Infantry Regiment, 5th Infantry (Red Diamond) Division, in Gen. George Patton's Third Army.
He fought three months of fierce combat across 500 miles and had risen to staff sergeant and squad leader. He was 20 years old. He was captured on 5th of December 1944, just outside Saarbrucken, Germany, when his unit advanced ahead of the others. In April 1945, the Soviet Army liberated him from Stalag 3A in Luckenwalde, Germany.
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Lt. Howard Kenneth Hinds Co. E, 414th Infantry Regiment Lt. Howard Hinds was captured in Belgium on 24th of October 1944. He was moved to several interim camps and ultimately to Oflag 64 in Szubin, Poland. On or about 24th of January 1945, he was marched from Oflag 64, in one of seven columns, westward into Germany. He arrived at Stalag IIIA in March 1945. The Russians liberated them in late April. What the Germans did not take (food, blankets, etc.) when they fled, the Russians commandeered.
Lt. Hinds heard talk of being taken to Odessa, Russia. From the camp, he could see POWs being loaded into rail cars. He had already been in rail cars on the trip from Belgium to Poland. He knew Odessa was not the direction he wanted to go, so he decided to escape. The Russian guards were neither numerous nor vigilant. When Lt. Hinds saw his opportunity, he ran for an opening in a fence. He could hear footsteps behind him and expected to be shot. As he rolled under the fence and looked around, he saw a French officer who had also decided to escape. They hiked by night and hid by day. At one point they stole a chicken to eat and later bicycles. They had no common language and could only communicate using hand gestures. They finally made it to an American unit and were repatriated.
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Pte. Charles Frederick Webb Parachute Regiment My Uncle, Charlie Webb, served in the Parachute Regiment in WW2. He parachuted down near Arnhem where he was shot in the leg and was taken prisoner. He was originally taken to Stalag 11b in 1944, but in January 1945 was moved to Stalag 3a and was there when the camp was liberated. Charlie died in 2009.
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Cpl. Patrick McGovern Royal Irish Fusiliers My uncle, Pat McGovern, joined the Royal Irish Fusiliers, the same regiment his father, Thomas McGovern, was in during WW1.
He saw action in the Atlantic, Malta, Italy, and Monte Cassino. He was captured at Leron. I understand from my cousin, that he was captured as a POW on the Greek island of Leros before being transported to Berlin via Athens. He then served the remainder of the war in Stalag IIIA, Luckenwalde. I personally recall seeing his German Arbeidspasse, so I assume like many others he was sent out to labour locally.
We have photos of his medals which include an award for gallantry. I am still researching the detail of his medals.
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Pte. John Andrew Richard "Irish" Thompson Essex Scottish Regiment My father, John Thompson, joined the 2nd World War effort through the Canadian armed forces on 20th of May 1940.
He had left his home in Limivady Ireland to find work and a better life and had been working as a farm hand in the Leamington area before joining up. He often recalled that his motivation for joining was related to protecting his beloved Ireland and his family still living there. He believed that if England were to fall to the Germans then Ireland would surely follow, but of course not without a fight.
Dad did basic training in Canada and subsequently trained as a commando in Britain before being deployed by ship n the infamous raid on Dieppe. Being one of the first off the boats he was fortunate to make it to the beach wall before the Germans opened up in full force. During the course of the battle that fateful morning he was badly wounded by a mortar blast. He recalled German soldiers walking down the beach taking prisoners and shooting those who death had not yet released from their hell. He tried to feign death amongst other dead soldiers where he lay at the bottom of a mortar crater on the beach. However the Germans, discovered him and took him prisoner. He spent the remainder of the war as a prisoner being shunted to several different camps, the last being Stalag IIIa in Luckenwalde. He told me of the generally poor living conditions there, with little food, terrible hygiene and rampant disease. Many men were afflicted by lice and dysentery. He noted that he often traded cigarettes or chocolate provided through the Red Cross with German guards or with Italian prisoners of war, for bread and anything else he could get to eat.
He participated in various work parties, under guard outside of the camp. As the war came to an end, he recalled the sight of the Russian army coming in to liberate the camp and through which he was eventually repatriated through England back to Canada. He was awarded the Dieppe medal, the Canadian volunteer service medal and the 1939-45 star defense medal. He received his discharge on 27th of October 1945 from the Wosely Barracks in Windsor, Ontario.
Dad suffered both physically and mentally as the result of the poorly treated wounds and his horrific war experiences. In midlife, he was hospitalized and treated for a nervous breakdown which would now undoubtedly be referred to as post-traumatic stress disorder.
Despite this, Dad enjoyed life, particularly in the outdoor and was an avid fisherman and hunter through his entire life. He became a highly successful buyer for the Simccoe Leaf Tobacco Company in Simcoe Ontario, and ultimately a Vice-President of that organization.
In 1952, he married Jean Agnes Robertson, who had been in the Women's Air Force, stationed at the bomber training school in Jarvis Ontario. They had two sons, Kevin Richard Thompson and Dean Gordon Thompson who remember, honor and respect him for the many sacrifices he made not only for his immediate family, but for his native country of Ireland and his adopted country of Canada as well.
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