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Oflag 9A Prisoner of War Camp
Oflag 9A was situated at Spangenburgh.
22nd Jul 1941 Parcels
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Want to know more about Oflag 9A Prisoner of War Camp? There are:6 items tagged Oflag 9A Prisoner of War Camp available in our Library
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Pte. Charles Dennis Plant Royal Army Medical Corps My father, Charles Plant was captured in Greece on 27th of April 1941 and sent to Stalag 8b on 20 October 1941, according to his POW record (that he said he and one of his mates stole from the office in Stalag 8b). He then went to Oflag 9a on 8th of April 1942 and to Oflag 9a/h on 30th of September 1942. He said he helped the officers there by going shopping down in the village, first with a guard and then after a while without a guard. When a German officer asked for volunteers for repatriation, he refused, saying that he was not married and wanted the married men to go before him. He was finally selected for repatriation on 26th of October 1943 and went to Scotland via Sweden.
We have received copies of his service record card, his ID card, and what we think are his POW work records (all in German). We have visited Stalag 8b and Lamsdorf. We also have a few details written by my father about his time in the POW camps.
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John A. Fleming My father John A. Fleming was a British POW in Italian camps around 1941-1943 at Camp 66, Camp 49 and Camp 17. He escaped with fellow POWs Dan Billany, David Dowie and Alex Harding. He was later captured and sent to Oflag 9.
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William J. Carter HMS Vandyck My grandfather, William J. Carter, was a POW at Oflag IXa from June 1940. He was an engineer on HMS Vandyck which was bombed (on 10th June 1940) and sunk off Norway on the way to helping in the evacuation of Narvik. He was there for the duration of the war. He died in 1957.
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Pte. Charles Dennis Plant Royal Army Medical Corps My father, Charles Plant was captured in Greece on 27th of April 1941 and sent to Stalag 8b on 20 October 1941, according to his POW record (that he said he and one of his mates stole from the office in Stalag 8b). He then went to Oflag 9a on 8th of April 1942 and to Oflag 9a/h on 30th of September 1942. He said he helped the officers there by going shopping down in the village, first with a guard and then after a while without a guard. When a German officer asked for volunteers for repatriation, he refused, saying that he was not married and wanted the married men to go before him. He was finally selected for repatriation on 26th of October 1943 and went to Scotland via Sweden.
We have received copies of his service record card, his ID card, and what we think are his POW work records (all in German). We have visited Stalag 8b and Lamsdorf. We also have a few details written by my father about his time in the POW camps.
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John A. Fleming My father John A. Fleming was a British POW in Italian camps around 1941-1943 at Camp 66, Camp 49 and Camp 17. He escaped with fellow POWs Dan Billany, David Dowie and Alex Harding. He was later captured and sent to Oflag 9.
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William J. Carter HMS Vandyck My grandfather, William J. Carter, was a POW at Oflag IXa from June 1940. He was an engineer on HMS Vandyck which was bombed (on 10th June 1940) and sunk off Norway on the way to helping in the evacuation of Narvik. He was there for the duration of the war. He died in 1957.
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