Date of Enlistment: November 1939 Army Number: 2735643 Rank: Guardsman Name: Oliver PARTON Unit: 2 Welsh Guards Date of Birth: 7 May 1917 Place of Birth: Stone, Staffordshire Date of Capture: 25 May 1940 Place of Capture: Boulogne-sur-Mer, France POW Number: 15161 POW Camps: Stalag VIIB, Stalag 344
Name: Oliver Parton . Date of Birth: 07/05/1916 . Place of Birth: Stone,... | The National Archives Reference: WO 416/283/192 Name: Oliver Parton. Date of Birth: 07/05/1916. Place of Birth: Stone, Staffordshire. Service: British Army. Rank: Guardsman. Regiment/Unit/Squadron: 2nd Battalion Welsh Guards. Service Number: 2735643. Date of Capture: 26/05/1940. Theatre of Capture: Boulogne. Camp Name/Number: Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf. PoW number: 15161. Date of Death: [unspecified]. Number of Photographs: 1. Number of Fingerprints: 2. Number of X-rays: 0. Number of Cards: 3.
View Record via Ancestry PART I. GENERAL QUESTIONNAIRE FOR BRITISH/AMERICAN EX-PRISONERS OF WAR. 1. No. 2735643 RANK - GDSM. SURNAME - PARTON CHRISTIAN NAMES - OLIVER DECORATIONS - 2. UNIT (ARMY) - WELSH GUARDS 3. DIVISION (ARMY) - 4. DATE OF BIRTH - 7/5/17 5. DATE OF ENLISTMENT - NOV. 1939 6. CIVILIAN TRADE OR PROFESSION - LABOURER 7. PRIVATE ADDRESS - 48 VINCENT ROAD, WALTON, STONE, STAFFS. 8. PLACE AND DATE OF ORIGINAL CAPTURE - BOULOGNE 25/5/40 9. WERE YOU WOUNDED WHEN CAPTURED? - NO 10. MAIN CAMPS OR HOSPITALS IN WHICH IMPRISONED Camp No. / Location / From / Till [STALAG] VIIIB LAMSDORF JUNE 40 - JAN. 45 11. WERE YOU IN A WORKING CAMP? Location / From/ Till / Nature of Work VARIOUS / JUNE 40 - JUNE 44 / VARIOUS COSEL / JUNE 44 - JUNE 45 / PAPER FACTORY 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 GENERAL QUESTIONNAIRE PART II TOP SECRET 1. No. 2735643 RANK - GDSM SURNAME - PARTON CHRISTIAN NAMES - OLIVER 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? 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 5th May 1945 Signature Oliver Parton
