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Want to know more about Stalag 21D Prisoner of War Camp? There are:31 items tagged Stalag 21D Prisoner of War Camp available in our Library
These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Second World War. |
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R J Hastings 5th Btn. Gordon Highlanders My father, R J Hastings was in the Gordon Highlanders 5th Btn. He was captured at St.Valery and held in StalagXX1D.
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Spr. Alfred Bird Royal Engineers I am trying to find any information on my father Sapper Alfred Bird, Royal Engineers who was held captive in both Stalags XX1B and XX1D throughout the whole of the war. He died when I was only 13 years old. My mother is 92 years. I would dearly love to find out anything about these camps or anyone who may remember him. Christine Shaw
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Lieutenant Corporal James Patrick Ryan My grandfather James Patrick Ryan, L/Cpl 6288904, was held at Stalag XX1D.
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Lieutenant Corporal James Patrick Ryan My grandfather James Patrick Ryan, L/Cpl 6288904, was held at Stalag XX1D.
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Pte. Robert Morris 7th Btn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders These photos belong to Bobby Morris of 7th Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders who was captured in France near Dunkirk. He was held in Stalag XXd and Stalag VIIIb.
Bobby is still living, he is in his 90s. I don't know any of the other people in the photographs but would be interested to know who they were.
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Pte. Robert Dalrymple 7th Btn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Robert Dalrymple was captured near Dunkirk in 1940, along with Bobby Morris and spent the rest of the war as a POW in Stalag XXID and Stalag IXc, his POW number was 648.
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Joah Kaye (d.07/05/1982) My grandmother wrote to Joah Kay on 27th of May 1942, this was recorded in her diary and the letter was sent to Stalag XXI-D (Fort VIII) Posen, Poland.
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Pte. Kenneth Frederick Floodgate Royal Norfolk Regiment Dad, Kenneth Floodgate was captured at St. Valery on 12th of June 1940. He was marched across the Low Countries, put on a barge on the Elbe. He and his fellow POWs had to scavenge food from fields as they walked, were spat on, had urine thrown at them by the women when passing through Germany, and had to squat by the side of the column when needing to toilet because if they ventured too far they would be shot as trying to escape. He spent time in Stalag XXI-B, XXI-D, 344 Lamsdorf, and Stalag 8b Lamsdorf, aged 19. Some teenage experience.
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Tpr. John William "Jack" Campion 15th/19th A Sqn. King's Royal Hussars John Campion served with the 15/19th Kings Royal Hussars in WW2. He was captured and held prisoner at Stalag XXID from May 1940 to June/July 1944, before being transferred to Stalag 344, Lamsdorf, Silesia.
John Campion Associates Limited
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Pte. Fredrick William Stringer 7th Btn. Royal West Kent Regiment Frederick Stringer completed the General Questionnaire for British/American Ex-Prisoners of War document in 1945. The information he provided is.
- Enlistment date - 20 October 1939.
- Captured in Albert, France 20 May 1940.
- Imprisoned in camp XX1D Posen from June 1940 to August 1944.
- Working camps, Posen Mum 1940 to Aug 1944 working on railways, then (nameplate not legible) from Aug 1944 to Jan 1945 working in a coalmine.
I'm not sure, but I think he must have then gone on the forced death march. He never spoke about any of this to us children.
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L/Cpl. Peter Bbazil Rush Oxford & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry All I know about Peter Rush is that he was a Prisoner of War was a batman for a officer. He served in the Ox & Bucks Light Infantry.
He told me he was a POW in Poznan Poland. He worked on farms and was fed horse meat and potato peelings. He tried to escape and got captured.
Apart from that he had PTSD all his life and did not engage much with people. I have his two medals and cap badges.
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L/Cpl. Robert McKee Gordon Highlanders My father Robert McKee was taken prisoner at St Valery en Caux and walked nearly 500 miles with his company and was at Stalag XX1D in Posen for most of the war.
His Company was one of the ones left behind so the rest could escape. Unfortunately his ship was bombed and he was captured.
I have many photographs and hand painted postcards for Christmas that he sent home and were kept by his mother and sisters.
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Pte. Frank Albert Bacon Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment My Grandfather Frank Bacon only ever spoke to me about the Army prior to WW2 as he spent 7 years in India before being called up in May 1939 to fight in WW2.
I have found quite a lot more about him, but sadly it was after he passed away. But we did find out all the different POW camps he was held in including Posen.
We also found that he was part of the British Expeditionary Force and entered the war in 1941 and was injured in battle, captured because of his injuries.
He was released in May 1945.
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Joseph Gibson Seaforth Highlanders (d.31st August 1943) Joseph Gibson died as a prisoner of war. I have 3 photos as Joseph was at Stalag XX1A and or XX1D and my Great Grampy, Geoffrey Sutcliffe organised his burial by the look of it.
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Cpl Geoffrey Sutcliffe Royal Army Service Corps Geoffrey Sutcliffe was bayoneted and paralysed and blind for a time. He was held in Stalag XX1D and German doctor who had studied in Oxford kept him as a study patient so he had to follow wherever he went by cattle truck but he recovered back home.
He managed to avoid the sniper that was picking couriers off by laying horizontaly on a motor bike with a cigarette on the end of a stick 2 ft above his head as a mock target.
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R J Hastings 5th Btn. Gordon Highlanders My father, R J Hastings was in the Gordon Highlanders 5th Btn. He was captured at St.Valery and held in StalagXX1D.
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Spr. Alfred Bird Royal Engineers I am trying to find any information on my father Sapper Alfred Bird, Royal Engineers who was held captive in both Stalags XX1B and XX1D throughout the whole of the war. He died when I was only 13 years old. My mother is 92 years. I would dearly love to find out anything about these camps or anyone who may remember him. Christine Shaw
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Lieutenant Corporal James Patrick Ryan My grandfather James Patrick Ryan, L/Cpl 6288904, was held at Stalag XX1D.
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Lieutenant Corporal James Patrick Ryan My grandfather James Patrick Ryan, L/Cpl 6288904, was held at Stalag XX1D.
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Pte. Robert Morris 7th Btn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders These photos belong to Bobby Morris of 7th Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders who was captured in France near Dunkirk. He was held in Stalag XXd and Stalag VIIIb.
Bobby is still living, he is in his 90s. I don't know any of the other people in the photographs but would be interested to know who they were.
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Pte. Robert Dalrymple 7th Btn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Robert Dalrymple was captured near Dunkirk in 1940, along with Bobby Morris and spent the rest of the war as a POW in Stalag XXID and Stalag IXc, his POW number was 648.
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Joah Kaye (d.07/05/1982) My grandmother wrote to Joah Kay on 27th of May 1942, this was recorded in her diary and the letter was sent to Stalag XXI-D (Fort VIII) Posen, Poland.
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Pte. Kenneth Frederick Floodgate Royal Norfolk Regiment Dad, Kenneth Floodgate was captured at St. Valery on 12th of June 1940. He was marched across the Low Countries, put on a barge on the Elbe. He and his fellow POWs had to scavenge food from fields as they walked, were spat on, had urine thrown at them by the women when passing through Germany, and had to squat by the side of the column when needing to toilet because if they ventured too far they would be shot as trying to escape. He spent time in Stalag XXI-B, XXI-D, 344 Lamsdorf, and Stalag 8b Lamsdorf, aged 19. Some teenage experience.
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Tpr. John William "Jack" Campion 15th/19th A Sqn. King's Royal Hussars John Campion served with the 15/19th Kings Royal Hussars in WW2. He was captured and held prisoner at Stalag XXID from May 1940 to June/July 1944, before being transferred to Stalag 344, Lamsdorf, Silesia.
John Campion Associates Limited
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Pte. Fredrick William Stringer 7th Btn. Royal West Kent Regiment Frederick Stringer completed the General Questionnaire for British/American Ex-Prisoners of War document in 1945. The information he provided is.
- Enlistment date - 20 October 1939.
- Captured in Albert, France 20 May 1940.
- Imprisoned in camp XX1D Posen from June 1940 to August 1944.
- Working camps, Posen Mum 1940 to Aug 1944 working on railways, then (nameplate not legible) from Aug 1944 to Jan 1945 working in a coalmine.
I'm not sure, but I think he must have then gone on the forced death march. He never spoke about any of this to us children.
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L/Cpl. Peter Bbazil Rush Oxford & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry All I know about Peter Rush is that he was a Prisoner of War was a batman for a officer. He served in the Ox & Bucks Light Infantry.
He told me he was a POW in Poznan Poland. He worked on farms and was fed horse meat and potato peelings. He tried to escape and got captured.
Apart from that he had PTSD all his life and did not engage much with people. I have his two medals and cap badges.
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L/Cpl. Robert McKee Gordon Highlanders My father Robert McKee was taken prisoner at St Valery en Caux and walked nearly 500 miles with his company and was at Stalag XX1D in Posen for most of the war.
His Company was one of the ones left behind so the rest could escape. Unfortunately his ship was bombed and he was captured.
I have many photographs and hand painted postcards for Christmas that he sent home and were kept by his mother and sisters.
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Pte. Frank Albert Bacon Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment My Grandfather Frank Bacon only ever spoke to me about the Army prior to WW2 as he spent 7 years in India before being called up in May 1939 to fight in WW2.
I have found quite a lot more about him, but sadly it was after he passed away. But we did find out all the different POW camps he was held in including Posen.
We also found that he was part of the British Expeditionary Force and entered the war in 1941 and was injured in battle, captured because of his injuries.
He was released in May 1945.
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Joseph Gibson Seaforth Highlanders (d.31st August 1943) Joseph Gibson died as a prisoner of war. I have 3 photos as Joseph was at Stalag XX1A and or XX1D and my Great Grampy, Geoffrey Sutcliffe organised his burial by the look of it.
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Cpl Geoffrey Sutcliffe Royal Army Service Corps Geoffrey Sutcliffe was bayoneted and paralysed and blind for a time. He was held in Stalag XX1D and German doctor who had studied in Oxford kept him as a study patient so he had to follow wherever he went by cattle truck but he recovered back home.
He managed to avoid the sniper that was picking couriers off by laying horizontaly on a motor bike with a cigarette on the end of a stick 2 ft above his head as a mock target.
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