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Want to know more about Stalag 4F Prisoner of War Camp? There are:587 items tagged Stalag 4F Prisoner of War Camp available in our Library
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WH Parker 42nd Btn Royal Tank Regiment WH Parker served with the 42nd Btn Royal Tank Regiment British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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RA Jackson 47th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment RA Jackson served with the 47th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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GS Howie 32nd Tank Brigade Royal Armoured Corps GS Howie served with the 32nd Tank Brigade Royal Armoured Corps British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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D Farquhar 41st Btn Royal Armoured Corps D Farquhar served with the 41st Btn Royal Armoured Corps British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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JM Campbell 42nd Btn Royal Tank Regiment JM Campbell served with the 42nd Btn Royal Tank Regiment British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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Cpl J W Horseman Durham Light Infantry My father was Cpl J W Horseman 4454335 (after WW2 I was adopted hence change of name). He was captured in North Africa in June 1942 whilst serving with the DLI. He was in Campo 75 and Campo 70 in Italy before being sent to Stalag IVB and then Stalag IVF. I have no information on his period in capitivity other than he came back to the UK via 91 Reception Centre.
If there is any one out there who knew him or can fill in any details I would appreciate it.
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AC2 Ralph Harrison I am wondering if there is anyone who remembers my dad, Ralph Harrison, who was stationed as an AC2 in Egypt. He was seconded to the Army and was at a lighthouse in the Red Sea(?), possibly Libya. He was captured on 30th June 1942 by the Italians and taken to a prison camp somewhere near Milan, then was taken to Stalag 4F and then onto Stalag 4B near Dresden where he stayed until liberated at the end of the war. Sadly, Dad died some years ago and he never spoke of his time in the war as it affected him very badly, but I would love to hear from anyone who may have known him.
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Pte. William Robert Burt 2/5th Battalion Essex Regiment William Burt was involved in the First Battle of El Alamein, from 1st to 27th of July 1942. His Battalion was overwhelmed at Deir-El-Shein and he was reported missing on 11th of August 1942, casualty list number 899.
He was a POW in Italy, camp number 51, Villa Serenity (Bari, also listed as Altamura. He was then a POW at Stalag 4f Hartmannsdorf Chemnitz, until the end of the war.
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Bmbdr. John J. Leivers Royal Artillery John Leivers served in the Middle East and Aegean. He was a prisoner of war, captured on 8th of October 1943 and held at camp Stalag 4F. Prisoner number 262653. After returning home John went into the reserves on 20th of May 1946.
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Tpr. James Allan Hopkins 3rd Carabineers Royal Armoured Corps My father, James Hopkins enrolled into the army in 1932 when he was 18 years old.
He trained in Colchester.
He went to war and was posted as missing on 8th of April 1941 at Machili in the Middle East. He was then a POW in PG78 Sulmona and then Stalag IV-f at Hartmannsdorf, Saxony.
I would like to know more about his experience as a POW. I remember him telling stories to my brothers, but unfortunately they cannot recall details.
I have letters he sent to my mother which I hope to add to this project.
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Arthur John Hicks Grenadier Guards My uncle, Arthur Hicks was POW 279059 held in Stalag 4F, Hartmansdorf, Chemnitz.
His family didn’t know if he was alive, so when he walked into the kitchen where his wife was she fainted! Having been shipped home, he was on a train being sent to be officially processed, and when the train passed through his home town he jumped off. He later got into trouble for doing that!
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William Thomas Motley Royal Sussex Regiment William Motley was taken as a POW and held in Camp 78 at Sulmona, Italy (1942-43) and at Stalag 4f Hartsmannsdorf, Germany (1943-45)
I was only 6 years old when my grandfather, William Motley, died in 1966 and I have only a few memories of him. Unfortunately, my father also died when I was young and I never got the opportunity to quiz him about his and my grandfather's past life.
Although I didn’t know for certain, I had long suspected that my grandfather had been a POW as there existed a letter from the Regimental Paymaster dated December 1942 to William’s partner saying that William had been reported missing and that she would continue to receive an allowance.
In recent years I have been able to find out that William was 42 when he joined the Royal Sussex Regiment and that he was sent out to the Western Desert and captured around the 27th of October that year, possibly during the Battle of El Alamein which was being fought at this time. In May 1943 it was reported that he had been sent to Camp 78 Sulmona in Italy and that he was wounded, presumably this happened the previous October.
Following the Italian Armistice in September 1943 it appears that many of the POWs in Sulmona escaped. I don’t know if William had tried to escape and was recaptured or if he had remained in the camp, but he was captured again by the Germans and sent to Stalag 4f, Hartmannsdorf in Germany, where he remained until the end of the war.
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Pte. Ronald Francis Melville Leicestershire Regiment My grandad, Ronald Melville was a prisoner at Stalag IV-F. He was captured in North Africa in no man's land. We believe he was a stretcher bearer as he played the trumpet in the Battalion band. He didn't like to talk about his war experiences. All we know about his time there is that he nursed an American officer and they corresponded after the war. He passed away in 1996.
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Pvt. John B. Kimak Coy E. 506th Parachute Infantry Regimentt    John Kimak, Junior 1924 - 2014, was my grandpap, and this is his story.
My grandfather was 18 years old, from Woods Run Ave, 15212, Pittsburgh, PA when he enlisted in the military in WW2. Grandpap entered the military on 30th of November 1942, where he did his training in Georgia and was separated 26th of December 1945. He served with the 101st Airborne Division USAAF.
I wish I had more to share. I wish I had asked more questions when I was younger, when he was alive. I wish I had just paid more attention to his stories. The following is information I received from my uncle (his son). Grandpap was a WWII Army soldier who saw action in the invasion of Europe on D-day. He was in the 101st Airborne Paratrooper, 506th Regiment - Regimental Headquarters Company, Company E, the original Band of Brothers.
His job was to hook up phone wires for communications. He was eventually captured by the Germans and spent most of the war in a German prison camp, Stalag 4F Workcamps Hartmannsdorf-Chemnitz Saxony 51-12. Here we know he and the others were not treated very well.
He was a POW from 7th of June 1944 until 7th of May 1945, a month short of being a full year. His rank when discharged was Private and it was an administrative screw-up that he wasn't officially Private First Class.
If anyone knew him, or served, or was a POW with him, I would love to know. I do not have all the facts and I know his name is missing from so many sites.
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Tpr. William Harry Stanley Abbott Cameron Highlanders My father Bill Abbott was captured at El Alamein on 30th of September 1942 and initially held prisoner at Campo 70 in Italy before being transferred to a German POW camp, Stalag IV-F.
I can remember the names of several other prisoners and it would be nice to be in contact with others who had relations that were held prisoner and any stories that they would like to share.
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WH Parker 42nd Btn Royal Tank Regiment WH Parker served with the 42nd Btn Royal Tank Regiment British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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RA Jackson 47th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment RA Jackson served with the 47th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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GS Howie 32nd Tank Brigade Royal Armoured Corps GS Howie served with the 32nd Tank Brigade Royal Armoured Corps British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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D Farquhar 41st Btn Royal Armoured Corps D Farquhar served with the 41st Btn Royal Armoured Corps British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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JM Campbell 42nd Btn Royal Tank Regiment JM Campbell served with the 42nd Btn Royal Tank Regiment British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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Cpl J W Horseman Durham Light Infantry My father was Cpl J W Horseman 4454335 (after WW2 I was adopted hence change of name). He was captured in North Africa in June 1942 whilst serving with the DLI. He was in Campo 75 and Campo 70 in Italy before being sent to Stalag IVB and then Stalag IVF. I have no information on his period in capitivity other than he came back to the UK via 91 Reception Centre.
If there is any one out there who knew him or can fill in any details I would appreciate it.
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AC2 Ralph Harrison I am wondering if there is anyone who remembers my dad, Ralph Harrison, who was stationed as an AC2 in Egypt. He was seconded to the Army and was at a lighthouse in the Red Sea(?), possibly Libya. He was captured on 30th June 1942 by the Italians and taken to a prison camp somewhere near Milan, then was taken to Stalag 4F and then onto Stalag 4B near Dresden where he stayed until liberated at the end of the war. Sadly, Dad died some years ago and he never spoke of his time in the war as it affected him very badly, but I would love to hear from anyone who may have known him.
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Pte. William Robert Burt 2/5th Battalion Essex Regiment William Burt was involved in the First Battle of El Alamein, from 1st to 27th of July 1942. His Battalion was overwhelmed at Deir-El-Shein and he was reported missing on 11th of August 1942, casualty list number 899.
He was a POW in Italy, camp number 51, Villa Serenity (Bari, also listed as Altamura. He was then a POW at Stalag 4f Hartmannsdorf Chemnitz, until the end of the war.
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Bmbdr. John J. Leivers Royal Artillery John Leivers served in the Middle East and Aegean. He was a prisoner of war, captured on 8th of October 1943 and held at camp Stalag 4F. Prisoner number 262653. After returning home John went into the reserves on 20th of May 1946.
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Tpr. James Allan Hopkins 3rd Carabineers Royal Armoured Corps My father, James Hopkins enrolled into the army in 1932 when he was 18 years old.
He trained in Colchester.
He went to war and was posted as missing on 8th of April 1941 at Machili in the Middle East. He was then a POW in PG78 Sulmona and then Stalag IV-f at Hartmannsdorf, Saxony.
I would like to know more about his experience as a POW. I remember him telling stories to my brothers, but unfortunately they cannot recall details.
I have letters he sent to my mother which I hope to add to this project.
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Arthur John Hicks Grenadier Guards My uncle, Arthur Hicks was POW 279059 held in Stalag 4F, Hartmansdorf, Chemnitz.
His family didn’t know if he was alive, so when he walked into the kitchen where his wife was she fainted! Having been shipped home, he was on a train being sent to be officially processed, and when the train passed through his home town he jumped off. He later got into trouble for doing that!
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William Thomas Motley Royal Sussex Regiment William Motley was taken as a POW and held in Camp 78 at Sulmona, Italy (1942-43) and at Stalag 4f Hartsmannsdorf, Germany (1943-45)
I was only 6 years old when my grandfather, William Motley, died in 1966 and I have only a few memories of him. Unfortunately, my father also died when I was young and I never got the opportunity to quiz him about his and my grandfather's past life.
Although I didn’t know for certain, I had long suspected that my grandfather had been a POW as there existed a letter from the Regimental Paymaster dated December 1942 to William’s partner saying that William had been reported missing and that she would continue to receive an allowance.
In recent years I have been able to find out that William was 42 when he joined the Royal Sussex Regiment and that he was sent out to the Western Desert and captured around the 27th of October that year, possibly during the Battle of El Alamein which was being fought at this time. In May 1943 it was reported that he had been sent to Camp 78 Sulmona in Italy and that he was wounded, presumably this happened the previous October.
Following the Italian Armistice in September 1943 it appears that many of the POWs in Sulmona escaped. I don’t know if William had tried to escape and was recaptured or if he had remained in the camp, but he was captured again by the Germans and sent to Stalag 4f, Hartmannsdorf in Germany, where he remained until the end of the war.
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Pte. Ronald Francis Melville Leicestershire Regiment My grandad, Ronald Melville was a prisoner at Stalag IV-F. He was captured in North Africa in no man's land. We believe he was a stretcher bearer as he played the trumpet in the Battalion band. He didn't like to talk about his war experiences. All we know about his time there is that he nursed an American officer and they corresponded after the war. He passed away in 1996.
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Pvt. John B. Kimak Coy E. 506th Parachute Infantry Regimentt John Kimak, Junior 1924 - 2014, was my grandpap, and this is his story.
My grandfather was 18 years old, from Woods Run Ave, 15212, Pittsburgh, PA when he enlisted in the military in WW2. Grandpap entered the military on 30th of November 1942, where he did his training in Georgia and was separated 26th of December 1945. He served with the 101st Airborne Division USAAF.
I wish I had more to share. I wish I had asked more questions when I was younger, when he was alive. I wish I had just paid more attention to his stories. The following is information I received from my uncle (his son). Grandpap was a WWII Army soldier who saw action in the invasion of Europe on D-day. He was in the 101st Airborne Paratrooper, 506th Regiment - Regimental Headquarters Company, Company E, the original Band of Brothers.
His job was to hook up phone wires for communications. He was eventually captured by the Germans and spent most of the war in a German prison camp, Stalag 4F Workcamps Hartmannsdorf-Chemnitz Saxony 51-12. Here we know he and the others were not treated very well.
He was a POW from 7th of June 1944 until 7th of May 1945, a month short of being a full year. His rank when discharged was Private and it was an administrative screw-up that he wasn't officially Private First Class.
If anyone knew him, or served, or was a POW with him, I would love to know. I do not have all the facts and I know his name is missing from so many sites.
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Tpr. William Harry Stanley Abbott Cameron Highlanders My father Bill Abbott was captured at El Alamein on 30th of September 1942 and initially held prisoner at Campo 70 in Italy before being transferred to a German POW camp, Stalag IV-F.
I can remember the names of several other prisoners and it would be nice to be in contact with others who had relations that were held prisoner and any stories that they would like to share.
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