Date of Enlistment: 17 August 1937 Army Number: 2734297 Rank: Guardsman Name: Hugh Columba GALLAGHER Unit: Welsh Guards Date of Birth: 11 July 1915 Place of Birth: Date of Capture: 29 May 1940 Place of Capture: France POW Number: 10283 POW Camps: Stalag VIIIB, Stalag IIIA
View Record via Ancestry PART I. GENERAL QUESTIONNAIRE FOR BRITISH/AMERICAN EX-PRISONERS OF WAR. 1. No. 2734297 RANK - GUARDSMAN SURNAME - GALLAGHER CHRISTIAN NAMES - HUGH COLUMBIA [sic] DECORATIONS - 2. UNIT (ARMY) - 1ST. BATT. WELSH GUARDS 3. DIVISION (ARMY) - ATTACHED G.H.Q., FIFTY FIRST DIV 4. DATE OF BIRTH - 11th JULY 1915 5. DATE OF ENLISTMENT - 17th AUG. 1937 6. CIVILIAN TRADE OR PROFESSION - LABOURER 7. PRIVATE ADDRESS - DERRYVEAGH, CHURCH HILL, CO. DONEGAL, IRELAND 8. PLACE AND DATE OF ORIGINAL CAPTURE - FRANCE, 29th MAY 1940 9. WERE YOU WOUNDED WHEN CAPTURED? - NO 10. MAIN CAMPS OR HOSPITALS IN WHICH IMPRISONED Camp No. / Location / From / Till STALAG VIIIB LAMSDORF SILESIA JUNE 1940 - MAY 1940 STALAG IIIA LUCKENWALDE NR. BERLIN MAY 1940 MAR. 1945 11. WERE YOU IN A WORKING CAMP? Location / From/ Till / Nature of Work SILESIA 1st JULY 1940 SEPT. 27th 41 RAILWAY SILESIA OCT. 7th 1941 - MAY 10th 43 STONE QUARRY POLAND MAY 11th 1943 - MAY 15th 1944 COAL MINE GERMANY AUG. 1944 - MAR. 1944 [sic ?1945 STATE FARM] 12. DID YOU SUFFER FROM ANY SERIOUS ILLNESSES WHILE A P/W? Nature of Illness / Cause / Duration - 12 b. DID YOU RECEIVE ADEQUATE MEDICAL TREATMENT? YES. BRITISH. GENERAL QUESTIONNAIRE PART II TOP SECRET 1. No. 2734297 RANK - GUARDSMAN SURNAME - GALLAGHER CHRISTIAN NAMES - HUGH COLUMBIA 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). - ( b ) Were you lectured on escape and evasion? (State where, when and by whom. - 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?) - 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.) - 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). - 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? - 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 3rd May 1945 Signature Hugh C. Gallagher