2372691 Signalman Robert Garioch SUTHERLAND, Royal Corps of Signals attached 201 Guards Brigade: POW

Date of Enlistment: July 1941
Army Number: 2372691
Rank: Signalman
Name: Robert Garioch SUTHERLAND
Unit: Royal Corps of Signals attached 201 Guards Brigade

Date of Birth: 9 May 1909
Place of Birth:

POW Number: 28459
Date of Capture: 20 June 1942
Place of Capture: Tobruk

 

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Reference: WO 416/350/329
Name: Robert Sutherland.
Date of Birth: 09/05/1909.
Place of Birth: [unspecified].
Service: [British Army].
Rank: Signalman.
Regiment/Unit/Squadron: [Royal Corps of Signals].
Service Number: 2372691.
Date of Capture: 20/06/1942.
Theatre of Capture: Tobruk.
Camp Name/Number: Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf.
PoW number: 28459.
Date of Death: [unspecified].
Number of Photographs: 1.
Number of Fingerprints: 1.
Number of X-rays: 0.
Number of Cards: 2.
Date: [1939-1945]

 

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PART I.
GENERAL QUESTIONNAIRE FOR BRITISH/AMERICAN EX-PRISONERS OF WAR.

1. No. 2372691
RANK - SGMN.
SURNAME - SUTHERLAND
CHRISTIAN NAMES - ROBERT GARIOCH
DECORATIONS -

2. UNIT (ARMY) - R. SIGS. 201 GDS MOT BDE SIGS

3. DIVISION (ARMY) - 8th ARMY

4. DATE OF BIRTH - 9/5/09

5. DATE OF ENLISTMENT - JULY 1941

6. CIVILIAN TRADE OR PROFESSION - SCHOOL TEACHER

7. PRIVATE ADDRESS - 109 BELLEVUE ROAD, EDINBURGH

8. PLACE AND DATE OF ORIGINAL CAPTURE - TOBRUK 20/6/42

9. WERE YOU WOUNDED WHEN CAPTURED? - NO

10. MAIN CAMPS OR HOSPITALS IN WHICH IMPRISONED
Camp No. / Location / From / Till
PG 87 BENEVENTO, ITALY AUG '42 - NOV '42
? CAPUA, ITALY NOV '42 - DEC 42
PG 52 CHIAVARI, ITALY DEC '42 - SEPT '43
STALAG 344 LAMSDORF, GERMANY SEPT '43
STALAG ? HAMMELBURG, GERMANY JAN '45 - MAR '45
STALAG VII B MOOSBURG, GERMANY MAR '45 - APRIL '45


11. WERE YOU IN A WORKING CAMP?
Location / From/ Till / Nature of Work
NO

12. DID YOU SUFFER FROM ANY SERIOUS ILLNESSES WHILE A P/W?
Nature of Illness / Cause / Duration
MALARIA - 6 WEEKS (APPROX)
12 b. DID YOU RECEIVE ADEQUATE MEDICAL TREATMENT?
YES. AFTER ARRIVE OF BRITISH M.O.s


GENERAL QUESTIONNAIRE PART II TOP SECRET

1. No. 2372691
RANK - SGMN.
SURNAME - SUTHERLAND
CHRISTIAN NAMES - ROBERT GAROCH


2. LECTURES before Capture:
( a ) Were you lectured in your unit on how to behave the event of capture? (State where, when and by whom).
NO
( b ) Were you lectured on escape and evasion? (State where, when and by whom.
NO

3. INTERROGATION after capture:
Were you specially interrogated by the enemy? (State where, when and methods employed by enemy).
NO

4. ESCAPES attempted:
Did you make any attempted or partly successful escapes? (Give details of each attempt accurately, stating where, when, method employed, names of your companions, wherein when recaptured and by whom. Were you physically fit? What happened to your companions?)
NO

5. SABOTAGE
Did you do any sabotage or destruction of enemy factory plant, war material, communications, etc, when employed on working-parties or during escape? (Give details, places and dates.)
NO

6. COLLABORATION with enemy:
Do you know of any British or American personnel who collaborated with the enemy or in any way helped the enemy agains other Allied Prisoners of War? (Give details, names of persons concerned, camps, dates and nature of collaboration or help given to enemy).
NO

7. WAR CRIMES
If you have any information or evidence of bad treatment by the enemy to yourself or to others, or knowledge of any enemy violation of Geneva Convention you should ask for a copy of "Form Q" on which to make your statement.
(NOTE: Form Q is a separate form inviting information on "War Crimes" and describes the kind of offences coning under this title.)



GENERAL QUESTIONNAIRE PART II TOP SECRET
(continued)

8. Have you any other matter of any kind you wish to bring to notice?
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SECURITY UNDERTAKING
I fully realise that all information relating the matters covered by the questions in Part II. are of a highly secret and official nature.

I have had explained to me and fully understand that under Defence Regulations or U.S.A.R. 380-5 I am forbidden to publish or communicate any information concerning these matters.

Date 12/5/45
Signature Robert G. Sutherland

 

See also:

• Robert Garioch - Poet - Scottish Poetry Library
  
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• Robert Garioch - Wikipedia
• "He was conscripted into the Royal Corps of Signals in 1941, and married early the following year. However, whilst serving in Operation Torch in North Africa, Garioch was captured by German troops in November 1942 and spent the following three years as a Prisoner of War."
• "Experience as a POW had a significant impact on Garioch's career, and he provides a vivid account of those years in his autobiographical Two Men and a Blanket (1975). While interned in Italy, he learnt the language sufficiently well to read also authors who wrote in a variety of native dialects."
• Two Men and a Blanket: A Prisoner of War's Story
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• Robert Garioch (1909-1981) | National Records of Scotland