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Stalag 8C Prisoner of War Camp
Stalag 8C (VIII-C, according to the German designation system) was located in Sagan (now called Å»agaÅ„), a town in western Poland that lies approximately 20 miles from the German border. It was opened in September 1939 to confine Polish POWs taken during the German invasion of Poland. During the next few years, the size and composition of the camps population increased tremendously as French, British, Canadian, Greek, Yugoslavian, and Soviet POWs were sent there. In June 1943, the camp was re-organised as a satellite camp of Stalag 8B in Lamsdorf (now called Åambinowice), southwestern Poland. In February 1945, the camp was evacuated in the face of advancing Soviet forces.
22nd Jul 1941 ParcelsIf you can provide any additional information, please add it here.
Those known to have been held in or employed at
Stalag 8C Prisoner of War Camp
during the Second World War 1939-1945.
- Boyce Stanley.
- Culpan W.
- Dursley GG. Cpl.
- Evinou Andrew Jeffrey. Tpr.
- Greed George Alfred. Rflman.
- Hazell Norman Eric.
- Kinge AR. L/Cpl.
- Mordey Robert W. Pte.
- Morrell Bernard Dolan. Pte.
- Roberts Joseph David. L/Cpl.
- Schofield Charles Arthur. L/Cpl.
- Scorah Edward.
- Smith WJ.
- Snape Alban. Rflmn.
- Spikings T.
- Wyatt LJ. L/Cpl.
- Wyatt-Mair Claude.
The names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed, please Add a Name to this List
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L/Cpl. LJ Wyatt Staffordshire Yeomanry
L/Cpl.LJ Wyatt served with the Staffordshire Yeomanry 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.
Dan
T Spikings 3rd Btn Royal Tank Regiment
T Spikings served with the 3rd 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.
Dan
WJ Smith 12th Lancers
WJ Smith served with the 12th Lancers 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.
Dan
L/Cpl. AR Kinge 4th Sqd (Sharpshooters) County Of London Yeomanry
L/Cpl.AR Kinge served with the 4th Sqd (Sharpshooters) County Of London Yeomanry 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.
Dan
Cpl. GG Dursley 1st Regiment Northamptonshire Yeomanry
Cpl.GG Dursley served with the 1st Regiment Northamptonshire Yeomanry 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.
Dan
W Culpan 3/4th Sqd. County Of London Yeomanry
W Culpan served with the 3/4th Sqd. County Of London Yeomanry 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.
Dan
Tpr. Andrew Jeffrey Evinou 4th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment
Andrew Evinou was a Trooper with the 4th Royal Tank Regiment of the British Army during WW2. He served in France as part of the Eighth Army and was rescued from the beach at Dunkirk. As their ship was leaving the dock, tea was announced down below deck. My dad never turned down a cuppa. While he was below, a Messerschmidt riddled the deck, where my dad had been sitting. A young man who was resting his head on my dad's knapsack was killed. Dad couldn't retrieve it until after they docked in England, and after the ship had cleared the deck of the dead. This had to be done before allowing any waiting family to go onto the dock. After a weekend's leave, dad was sent to North Africa.The picture I am sharing was taken in the African Desert. It was featured on the cover page of a Mid Eastern publication, called Parade. The picture was lost to our family. A year after my dad died, I travelled to the London Newspaper Museum, from Canada, in search of it. Fortunately I was able to find it, I held it close to my heart and cried. That picture as you can imagine, has become a treasure.
In June of 1942, my dad was captured at Tobruk, where their tanks were an easy defeat for the superior enemy tanks. Dad was a PoW, from then till the end of the war, and was listed as Missing in Action for a year. He was first a Prisoner with the Italians, then with the Germans. He spent time at Stalag V111C and worked in the coal mines as part of a Work Group. He participated in and survived the Great March.
Andrew died in October 2006. Lest We Forget
Janet Thompson
Rflmn. Alban Snape 1st Btn. Rifle Brigade
Alban Snape was captured a few days after D-Day and taken to Stalag VIIIC, then sent to a Sugar Beet Factory as part of a working party before the long march west during the winter of 44/45. He wrote a book about his experiences called Ersatz Krieg.Robert Snape
Rflman. George Alfred "Greedy" Greed 1st Btn. Rifle Brigade
Before the war he was in the Territorial Army, George Greed lived in Poplar London, Tower Hamlets, but am not sure of his unit, either Poplar or Bethnal Green, or the dates he was enrolled. He signed up with the 1st Battalion, Rifle Brigade, not sure of the dates. I think he trained in the Thetford forest area at Dixon’s camp?The following is what I have discovered, but not sure if it is accurate. 2nd Armoured Brigade Left UK on 28th of September1941 (perhaps from Felixstowe) Arrived Suez 29th of November 1941. In Egypt until 20th of December 1941. In Libya January 1942 to 16th of June 1942 then withdrew back to Egypt.
7th Armoured Division, 22nd Armoured Brigade, 19th of June 1942 onwards. In Egypt 12th of November 1942 then Libya until 10th of Feb 1943. To Italy September 1943 to December 1943 (he mentioned Salerno). In January 1944 return to UK. June 1944 to France, landed Gold Beach, he was captured at Villers Bocage 13th of June 1944 when he was a half-track driver. He was a P.O.W 13th of June 1944 to 18th of April 1945, Prisoner No. 70132 at Stalag VIII-C Sagan, Germany (now Konin Zaganski Poland).
Dad would never speak much of his time in the war, he did tell me he was dive-bombed by Stukas in the desert and received shrapnel wounds in his legs. He mentioned he was at Mersa Matruh and El Alamein. He was lucky not to be killed at Villers Bocage as he was a driver of one of the Half Track vehicles, which were all destroyed by Michael Wittmann’s Panzers.
He was a prisoner at Stalag 8c and he worked at the Maulsh sugar factory in Poland. He told me that when he was a POW in Stalag 8C he used to feign illness to get into the sick bay, where he managed to get some bread from a kind orderly, and sneak it back to his hut. I remember him telling me he was on work parties loading sugar for the German troops on the Eastern front, and of course they used to sabotage as much as they could by relieving themselves in it and worse!!
At the end of the war when the Russians were advancing West, he managed, with a few others, to escape from a work party, they were eventually rounded up by the advancing Russians, who lined them up to shoot them as they thought they were Germans. He told me that a French, or French speaking woman managed to persuade the Russians that they were British soldiers, and she kissed my Dad and hung a cross around his neck, which saved their lives. I still have that cross.
Now here I become confused. I have read reports about the forced march from POW camps across Germany. But my Dad told me he was forced to march by the Russians, and that eventually he ended up in Odessa, where he was eventually shipped back to the UK.
Brian Greed
Pte. Robert W Mordey 2/7th Btn. Middlesex Regiment
Robert W Mordey born April 1917 was a general labourer residing in Uxbridge Middlesex at the outset of the War.It is not clear when he enlisted but served with the Middlesex Regiment 2/7th Battalion. He was a private and according to records, he was initially recorded as Missing in Action believe POW on or about the 4th February 1944 during the Italian Campaign. Other records indicate he was a POW at Stalag Camp VIII-C at Konin Zaganski Poland. Whilst a POW he was severely punished for helping Jewish people. As a result of his injuries, he never married. The family do not at this stage know anything further about his war service. He died in 1983
Chris Davies
L/Cpl. Joseph David Roberts Royal Warwickshire Regiment
My Father was Joe Roberts, he joined the Battalion on 24 Feb 1941 and was de-mobbed in 1946 after being repatriated as a POW from Stalag 8C Sagen. I have quite a few pictures and evidence of who, what and where the regiment where during the period 1942 - 1944. I have some pictures of Dad during his early service and also letter from his wife Lillian and other correspondents from the Army re radio messages from Germany, etc. I also have pictures and the a copy of the programme naming some of the cast of a play "The Pirates of Penzance" performed during his time in Stalag 8C (Sagen) and of a special badge that the chaps in 8C either made or where given to show that they where POW during this period.David Fox-Roberts
Pte. Bernard Dolan "Benny" Morrell Black Watch
My dad, Bernard Morrell, was a POW in WWII. He was captured in Moselle, France on 13th May 1940. He was then a prisoner of war in German hands.He arrived at Stalag XXA on 30th of May 1940, his POW number was 5237 (Stalag XXA) and also another POW (Stalag X1B). When he arrived he got moved so many times I am surprised if he was able to keep or make friends with his unit or new POW people like himself. Like I said, his dates are Stalag XXa on 30th May 1940, coming from Dulag XII according to a list dated on 31th May 1940, and two capture cards dated 6th June 1940 and 31st June 1940. Transferred from Stalag XXa to Stalag XIb on 15th March 1941, according to a list dated 18th March 1941. Arrived at Stalag XIb on 17th March 1941, coming from Stalag XXa on the same day (looks like). Again transferred from XIb to Stalag XX on 10th April 1941 according to two lists dated 19th April 1941 and 22nd April 1941. Transferred again to Stalag XX to Stalag XXIa on 15th May 1941. Detained in Stalag XXIa and transferred to Stalag VIIIb on 8th June 1941 according to a list dated 17th July 1941. Arrived at Stalag VIIIb on 16th June 1941 coming from Stalag XXIc/h. Again transferred from Stalag VIIb to Stalag VIIIc on 19th October 1943. Detained in Stalag VIIIc according to capture card dated on 5th December 1943, and a list sent 29th February 1944.
So, there are nine lists issued by the German authorities, then three capture cards and one list sent by the British camp leader to Stalag VIIIc. Out of all the transfers, why or how could anyone make friends or not even know where they going to be staying, let alone all the worry if you are going to survive the POW camps? Why did they transfer him so many times? All I can think of is maybe he was trying to get out or he would not do what he was meant to do. Hope someone can give me a bit of help.
But my poor dad - I can't begin to know what every one of the soldiers went through, so heart-breaking are some of the stories I have read. I do know that one of my relations said that my dad did have terrible nightmares when he came home. May be that is why he drank quite a bit and who can blame him? There was no counselling in his day - it was get on with it, go to work every day - which he did when he got work. So sad for every one of them.
Catherine Morrell
L/Cpl. Charles Arthur Schofield Loyal (North Lancashire) Regiment
Charles Schofield was a POW at Stalag VIIIC, Konin, Zaganski, in Poland. His POW number was 86946. I think he was captured in 1942. He survived and returned home to Lumb, Rossendale, Lancashire where he married and had a son. He suffered from ill health and died in September 1970, at the age of 47. He is buried in St Michael's C of E graveyard in Lumb. Charles was a Church Warden at St Michael's.Charles was the brother of my first cousin three times removed's husband and his son and I were born in the same month in the same year and went to the same schools together, we were good friends. He seldom talked about his experiences as a POW except that he once had an operation, without anesthetic, undertaken by a German army doctor. He was an active man until his final illness, who enjoyed hunting with dogs on the local moors, he kept a greyhound and a Jack Russell terrier. A fine, generous man, who died before his time.
Kevin O'Hara
Norman Eric Hazell 2nd Btn. Durham Light Infantry
My grandfather was a POW in Stalag 8c from 1942 to 1945. Does anyone have any stories or know anything about him?Allie
Edward Scorah
My dad was in Stalag 8c from February 1944 to April 1945. He had a mate called Bill Mott. Does anyone have any information about my dad or Bill?R Scorah
L/Cpl. LJ Wyatt Staffordshire Yeomanry
L/Cpl.LJ Wyatt served with the Staffordshire Yeomanry 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.
Dan
T Spikings 3rd Btn Royal Tank Regiment
T Spikings served with the 3rd 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.
Dan
WJ Smith 12th Lancers
WJ Smith served with the 12th Lancers 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.
Dan
L/Cpl. AR Kinge 4th Sqd (Sharpshooters) County Of London Yeomanry
L/Cpl.AR Kinge served with the 4th Sqd (Sharpshooters) County Of London Yeomanry 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.
Dan
Cpl. GG Dursley 1st Regiment Northamptonshire Yeomanry
Cpl.GG Dursley served with the 1st Regiment Northamptonshire Yeomanry 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.
Dan
W Culpan 3/4th Sqd. County Of London Yeomanry
W Culpan served with the 3/4th Sqd. County Of London Yeomanry 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.
Dan
Tpr. Andrew Jeffrey Evinou 4th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment
Andrew Evinou was a Trooper with the 4th Royal Tank Regiment of the British Army during WW2. He served in France as part of the Eighth Army and was rescued from the beach at Dunkirk. As their ship was leaving the dock, tea was announced down below deck. My dad never turned down a cuppa. While he was below, a Messerschmidt riddled the deck, where my dad had been sitting. A young man who was resting his head on my dad's knapsack was killed. Dad couldn't retrieve it until after they docked in England, and after the ship had cleared the deck of the dead. This had to be done before allowing any waiting family to go onto the dock. After a weekend's leave, dad was sent to North Africa.The picture I am sharing was taken in the African Desert. It was featured on the cover page of a Mid Eastern publication, called Parade. The picture was lost to our family. A year after my dad died, I travelled to the London Newspaper Museum, from Canada, in search of it. Fortunately I was able to find it, I held it close to my heart and cried. That picture as you can imagine, has become a treasure.
In June of 1942, my dad was captured at Tobruk, where their tanks were an easy defeat for the superior enemy tanks. Dad was a PoW, from then till the end of the war, and was listed as Missing in Action for a year. He was first a Prisoner with the Italians, then with the Germans. He spent time at Stalag V111C and worked in the coal mines as part of a Work Group. He participated in and survived the Great March.
Andrew died in October 2006. Lest We Forget
Janet Thompson
Rflmn. Alban Snape 1st Btn. Rifle Brigade
Alban Snape was captured a few days after D-Day and taken to Stalag VIIIC, then sent to a Sugar Beet Factory as part of a working party before the long march west during the winter of 44/45. He wrote a book about his experiences called Ersatz Krieg.Robert Snape
Rflman. George Alfred "Greedy" Greed 1st Btn. Rifle Brigade
Before the war he was in the Territorial Army, George Greed lived in Poplar London, Tower Hamlets, but am not sure of his unit, either Poplar or Bethnal Green, or the dates he was enrolled. He signed up with the 1st Battalion, Rifle Brigade, not sure of the dates. I think he trained in the Thetford forest area at Dixon’s camp?The following is what I have discovered, but not sure if it is accurate. 2nd Armoured Brigade Left UK on 28th of September1941 (perhaps from Felixstowe) Arrived Suez 29th of November 1941. In Egypt until 20th of December 1941. In Libya January 1942 to 16th of June 1942 then withdrew back to Egypt.
7th Armoured Division, 22nd Armoured Brigade, 19th of June 1942 onwards. In Egypt 12th of November 1942 then Libya until 10th of Feb 1943. To Italy September 1943 to December 1943 (he mentioned Salerno). In January 1944 return to UK. June 1944 to France, landed Gold Beach, he was captured at Villers Bocage 13th of June 1944 when he was a half-track driver. He was a P.O.W 13th of June 1944 to 18th of April 1945, Prisoner No. 70132 at Stalag VIII-C Sagan, Germany (now Konin Zaganski Poland).
Dad would never speak much of his time in the war, he did tell me he was dive-bombed by Stukas in the desert and received shrapnel wounds in his legs. He mentioned he was at Mersa Matruh and El Alamein. He was lucky not to be killed at Villers Bocage as he was a driver of one of the Half Track vehicles, which were all destroyed by Michael Wittmann’s Panzers.
He was a prisoner at Stalag 8c and he worked at the Maulsh sugar factory in Poland. He told me that when he was a POW in Stalag 8C he used to feign illness to get into the sick bay, where he managed to get some bread from a kind orderly, and sneak it back to his hut. I remember him telling me he was on work parties loading sugar for the German troops on the Eastern front, and of course they used to sabotage as much as they could by relieving themselves in it and worse!!
At the end of the war when the Russians were advancing West, he managed, with a few others, to escape from a work party, they were eventually rounded up by the advancing Russians, who lined them up to shoot them as they thought they were Germans. He told me that a French, or French speaking woman managed to persuade the Russians that they were British soldiers, and she kissed my Dad and hung a cross around his neck, which saved their lives. I still have that cross.
Now here I become confused. I have read reports about the forced march from POW camps across Germany. But my Dad told me he was forced to march by the Russians, and that eventually he ended up in Odessa, where he was eventually shipped back to the UK.
Brian Greed
Pte. Robert W Mordey 2/7th Btn. Middlesex Regiment
Robert W Mordey born April 1917 was a general labourer residing in Uxbridge Middlesex at the outset of the War.It is not clear when he enlisted but served with the Middlesex Regiment 2/7th Battalion. He was a private and according to records, he was initially recorded as Missing in Action believe POW on or about the 4th February 1944 during the Italian Campaign. Other records indicate he was a POW at Stalag Camp VIII-C at Konin Zaganski Poland. Whilst a POW he was severely punished for helping Jewish people. As a result of his injuries, he never married. The family do not at this stage know anything further about his war service. He died in 1983
Chris Davies
L/Cpl. Joseph David Roberts Royal Warwickshire Regiment
My Father was Joe Roberts, he joined the Battalion on 24 Feb 1941 and was de-mobbed in 1946 after being repatriated as a POW from Stalag 8C Sagen. I have quite a few pictures and evidence of who, what and where the regiment where during the period 1942 - 1944. I have some pictures of Dad during his early service and also letter from his wife Lillian and other correspondents from the Army re radio messages from Germany, etc. I also have pictures and the a copy of the programme naming some of the cast of a play "The Pirates of Penzance" performed during his time in Stalag 8C (Sagen) and of a special badge that the chaps in 8C either made or where given to show that they where POW during this period.David Fox-Roberts
Pte. Bernard Dolan "Benny" Morrell Black Watch
My dad, Bernard Morrell, was a POW in WWII. He was captured in Moselle, France on 13th May 1940. He was then a prisoner of war in German hands.He arrived at Stalag XXA on 30th of May 1940, his POW number was 5237 (Stalag XXA) and also another POW (Stalag X1B). When he arrived he got moved so many times I am surprised if he was able to keep or make friends with his unit or new POW people like himself. Like I said, his dates are Stalag XXa on 30th May 1940, coming from Dulag XII according to a list dated on 31th May 1940, and two capture cards dated 6th June 1940 and 31st June 1940. Transferred from Stalag XXa to Stalag XIb on 15th March 1941, according to a list dated 18th March 1941. Arrived at Stalag XIb on 17th March 1941, coming from Stalag XXa on the same day (looks like). Again transferred from XIb to Stalag XX on 10th April 1941 according to two lists dated 19th April 1941 and 22nd April 1941. Transferred again to Stalag XX to Stalag XXIa on 15th May 1941. Detained in Stalag XXIa and transferred to Stalag VIIIb on 8th June 1941 according to a list dated 17th July 1941. Arrived at Stalag VIIIb on 16th June 1941 coming from Stalag XXIc/h. Again transferred from Stalag VIIb to Stalag VIIIc on 19th October 1943. Detained in Stalag VIIIc according to capture card dated on 5th December 1943, and a list sent 29th February 1944.
So, there are nine lists issued by the German authorities, then three capture cards and one list sent by the British camp leader to Stalag VIIIc. Out of all the transfers, why or how could anyone make friends or not even know where they going to be staying, let alone all the worry if you are going to survive the POW camps? Why did they transfer him so many times? All I can think of is maybe he was trying to get out or he would not do what he was meant to do. Hope someone can give me a bit of help.
But my poor dad - I can't begin to know what every one of the soldiers went through, so heart-breaking are some of the stories I have read. I do know that one of my relations said that my dad did have terrible nightmares when he came home. May be that is why he drank quite a bit and who can blame him? There was no counselling in his day - it was get on with it, go to work every day - which he did when he got work. So sad for every one of them.
Catherine Morrell
L/Cpl. Charles Arthur Schofield Loyal (North Lancashire) Regiment
Charles Schofield was a POW at Stalag VIIIC, Konin, Zaganski, in Poland. His POW number was 86946. I think he was captured in 1942. He survived and returned home to Lumb, Rossendale, Lancashire where he married and had a son. He suffered from ill health and died in September 1970, at the age of 47. He is buried in St Michael's C of E graveyard in Lumb. Charles was a Church Warden at St Michael's.Charles was the brother of my first cousin three times removed's husband and his son and I were born in the same month in the same year and went to the same schools together, we were good friends. He seldom talked about his experiences as a POW except that he once had an operation, without anesthetic, undertaken by a German army doctor. He was an active man until his final illness, who enjoyed hunting with dogs on the local moors, he kept a greyhound and a Jack Russell terrier. A fine, generous man, who died before his time.
Kevin O'Hara
Norman Eric Hazell 2nd Btn. Durham Light Infantry
My grandfather was a POW in Stalag 8c from 1942 to 1945. Does anyone have any stories or know anything about him?Allie
Edward Scorah
My dad was in Stalag 8c from February 1944 to April 1945. He had a mate called Bill Mott. Does anyone have any information about my dad or Bill?R Scorah
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to help with the costs of keeping the site running.
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