2735337 Guardsman Abraham REES, 2 Welsh Guards: POW

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    Date of Enlistment: 24 December 1939
    Army Number: 2735337
    Rank: Guardsman
    Name: Abraham REES
    Unit: 3 Company, 2 Welsh Guards

    Date of Birth: 3 June 1918
    Place of Birth: Swansea

    Date of Capture: 25 May 1940
    Place of Capture: Boulogne-sur-Mer, France

    POW Number: 5763
    POW Camps: Stalag XXlB, Stalag XXB
     
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    Name: Abraham Rees . Date of Birth: 03/06/1918 . Place of Birth: Swansea . Service:... | The National Archives
    Reference: WO 416/302/201
    Name: Abraham Rees.
    Date of Birth: 03/06/1918.
    Place of Birth: Swansea.
    Service: British Army.
    Rank: Guardsman.
    Regiment/Unit/Squadron: [Welsh Guards].
    Service Number: [2735337].
    Date of Capture: [unspecified].
    Theatre of Capture: [unspecified].
    Camp Name/Number: Stalag XXlB Schubin.
    PoW number: 5763.
    Date of Death: [unspecified].
    Number of Photographs: 0.
    Number of Fingerprints: 0.
    Number of X-rays: 0.
    Number of Cards: 1.
    Date: [1939-1945]
     
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    PART I.
    GENERAL QUESTIONNAIRE FOR BRITISH/AMERICAN EX-PRISONERS OF WAR.

    1. No.
    2735337
    RANK - GDSN
    SURNAME - REES
    CHRISTIAN NAMES - ABRAHAM
    DECORATIONS - B.E.F.

    2. UNIT (ARMY) -
    2nd BATT. WELSH GUARDS

    3. DIVISION (ARMY) -

    4. DATE OF BIRTH -
    3/6/18

    5. DATE OF ENLISTMENT -
    24/12/39

    6. CIVILIAN TRADE OR PROFESSION -
    STEEL WORKER

    7. PRIVATE ADDRESS -
    19 CASTLE GRAIG, LANDORE, SWANSEA

    8. PLACE AND DATE OF ORIGINAL CAPTURE -
    BOULOGNE 25 MAY 1940

    9. WERE YOU WOUNDED WHEN CAPTURED? -
    YES

    10. MAIN CAMPS OR HOSPITALS IN WHICH IMPRISONED
    Camp No. / Location / From / Till

    17th GEN. HOSP. CAMEA -
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    11. WERE YOU IN A WORKING CAMP?
    YES
    Location / From/ Till / Nature of Work
    POLAND 1940 - 1945 FARMING
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    12. DID YOU SUFFER FROM ANY SERIOUS ILLNESSES WHILE A P/W?
    Nature of Illness / Cause / Duration

    BAD FEET / MARCHING / 20 JAN. TO 23rd APRIL
    12 b. DID YOU RECEIVE ADEQUATE MEDICAL TREATMENT?
    YES IN GERMAN HOSPITAL WHEN POSSIBLE


    GENERAL QUESTIONNAIRE PART II TOP SECRET

    1. No.
    2735337
    RANK - GDSN
    SURNAME - REES
    CHRISTIAN NAMES - ABRAHAM


    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).

    TO DESTROY ALL MEANS OF REGIMENTAL IDENTIFICATIONS. COMPANY OFFICER, BOULOGNE.
    ( b ) Were you lectured on escape and evasion? (State where, when and by whom.
    NO
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    3. INTERROGATION after capture:
    Were you specially interrogated by the enemy? (State where, when and methods employed by enemy).


    INTERROGATED AS TO NATIONALITY AT STALAG XXIB BY GERMAN OFFICER

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    4. ESCAPES attempted:
    Did yo 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?)

    ESCAPED OVER R. ELBE BY TAGEMUNDE IN A FISHING BOAT. NOT PHYSICALLY FIT. COMPANIONS - NONE.
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    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?

    NO


    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
    12th May 1945
    Signature Abraham Rees
     
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