Info on Stalag 4c

Thank you for that I think he must of just spelt it wrong that’s amazing

 

My Grandfather was a prisoner here. Ferruccio Delgrande. I gave his military records and can’t read them because they are in Italian.

 

You can copy it then paste it on translation

 

'... the burial of 6 British soldiers and many others from French Dutch prisoners killed in German air raids at Brux...'

Regarding Stalag 4C and the US bombing of Brux in May 1944 in which several British POWs died, there's quite a bit of information, and a photograph which seems to be of the British POW burial, on this site, which tells the story of the some of the Durham Light Infantry POWs killed on that and in a subsequent raid.

Pte Charles Moore, 16 DLI, died 12/5/44

The British POWs were subsequently reburied in the Prague CWGC Cemetery. This page lists the 34 named British prisoners of war who were killed in the US raid of 12/5/44 on Brux who were subsequently reburied in Prague:

Commonwealth POW Casualites, 12/5/44 and 21/7/44, who are now buried in Prague War Cemetery

 

Please can confirm this? When my Grandfather was alive he told us, that when they were released all the POWS had to run to the hills whist being shot at. He should have got a medal but he never claimed it. His detail are as below.


Name: Edmond Dingli [Dingley].

Date of Birth: 11/3/1913.

Place of Birth: Alexandria [Egypt].

Service: [British Army].

Rank: Private.

Regiment/Unit/Squadron: [Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes].

Service Number: 10670208.

Date of Capture: [unspecified].

Theatre of Capture: [unspecified].

Camp Name/Number: Stalag IVC Wistritz bei Teplitz.

PoW number: 94950.

Date of Death: [unspecified].

Number of Photographs: 0.

Number of Fingerprints: 0.

Number of X-rays: 0.

Number of Cards: 6.

 

That story is a bit too vague to be confirmed without further information. The basics of his story is that he was captured during the invasion of Crete in 1941, while serving with the NAAFI/RASC. He would have then been transferred to Germany and held there until release in April-May 1945. He could have been at other camps before 4C and would have probably have been at an outlying work camp rather than the main camp.

Many POWs completed liberation questionnaires in 1945 which have details and dates of when and where captured. These can be researched at the National Archives, but are not available online.

Casualty details in attached docs. You'll notice some of his fellow NAAFI POWs have Army numbers close to his: Economides, would have been with him all the way from basic training; these men would probably have been with him on Crete and into Germany and probably friends, so it's worth researching them, too.

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Wow thank you so much, Im not military at all so im very slow with my research, this has helped I'm so grateful

 

A lot of prisoners from Stalag 4C were first put through Stalag 4B in Muhlberg.
My grandfather (J. Draper 151 Regt. R.A.) went through there after his capture on Crete.