POW Photographs (General)

Long March "800 out of 3,000 Died"

Sgt. Greenstein

Liverpool Echo 4th May 1945

 

he is talking in this video at Fallingbostel.

 

DULAG Luft - Men in the Mess Hall they called "Stage Door Canteen" Source: NARA

 

Cpl. Lawrie Greig, 5th Bn Gordon Highlanders missing France May-June 1940 taken prisoner 6th June 1940
POW Camp: Stalag IXC


Aberdeen Weekly Journal 15th January 1942



Name: Lawrie Grieg.
Date of Birth: 1/6/1914.
Place of Birth: New Pitsligo, Aberdeenshire.
Service: British Army.
Rank: Corporal.
Regiment/Unit/Squadron: Gordon Highlanders.
Service Number: 807543.
Date of Capture: 06 June 1940.
Theatre of Capture: Somme.
Camp Name/Number: Stalag IXC Bad Sulza.
PoW number: 101.
Date of Death: [unspecified].
Number of Photographs: 0.
Number of Fingerprints: 0.
Number of X-rays: 0.
Number of Cards: 2.
WO 416/151/70

 

Signalman James C. Cassie, 51 Divisional Signals, Royal Corps of Signals Missing France 15th May - 16th June 1940
POW Camp: Stalag XXA


Aberdeen Weekly Journal 15th January 1942

Name: James [C] Cassie.
Date of Birth: 06/02/1919.
Place of Birth: Aberdeen.
Service: British Army.
Rank: Private.
Regiment/Unit/Squadron: [Royal Corps of Signals].
Service Number: 2583918.
Date of Capture: [unspecified].
Theatre of Capture: [unspecified].
Camp Name/Number: Stalag XXA Thorn.
PoW number: 16195.
Date of Death: [unspecified].
Number of Photographs: 0.
Number of Fingerprints: 0.
Number of X-rays: 0.
Number of Cards: 1.
WO 416/60/181

 

Cpl. John Aberdein, 1st Bn Gordon Highlanders missing France May-June 1940
POW Camp: Stalag VIIIB


Aberdeen Weekly Journal 15th January 1942

Name: John Arthur Aberdein.
Date of Birth: 27 December 1901.
Place of Birth: Aberdeen.
Service: British Army.
Rank: Corporal.
Regiment/Unit/Squadron: [Gordon Highlanders].
Service Number: 2870035.
Date of Capture: [unspecified].
Theatre of Capture: [unspecified].
Camp Name/Number: Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf.
PoW number: 17600.
Date of Death: [unspecified].
Number of Photographs: 0.
Number of Fingerprints: 0.
Number of X-rays: 0.
Number of Cards: 2.
WO 416/1/146

 

2931922 Pte. Robert W. Brown, 4th Bn The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders missing France 5th June 1940 captured and taken prisoner
POW Camp: Stalag IXC


Aberdeen Weekly Journal 15th January 1942

Name: Robert [W] Brown.
Date of Birth: 29 September 1918.
Place of Birth: Aberdeen.
Service: [British Army].
Rank: Private.
Regiment/Unit/Squadron: [The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders].
Service Number: 2981922 [1931922].
Date of Capture: [unspecified].
Theatre of Capture: [unspecified].
Camp Name/Number: Stalag IXC Bad Sulza.
PoW number: 663.
Date of Death: [unspecified].
Number of Photographs: 0.
Number of Fingerprints: 0.
Number of X-rays: 0.
Number of Cards: 3.
WO 416/49/518

 

Stalag IXC​

Pte. Donald Fraser, 5th Bn Gordon Highlanders missing France June-May 1940 captured and taken prisoner 6th June 1940

Pte George R. Douglas, RAMC missing France June-May 1940 captured and taken prisoner repatriated 1943


Aberdeen Weekly Journal 15th January 1942

Name: Donald Fraser.
Date of Birth: 18/9/1903.
Place of Birth: Aberdeen.
Service: British Army.
Rank: Private.
Regiment/Unit/Squadron: The Gordon Highlanders.
Service Number: 2881370.
Date of Capture: 06 June 1940.
Theatre of Capture: The Somme.
Camp Name/Number: Stalag IX C Bad Sulza.
PoW number: 536.
Date of Death: [unspecified].
Number of Photographs: 0.
Number of Fingerprints: 0.
Number of X-rays: 0.
Number of Cards: 2.
WO 416/128/188

Name: George Douglas.
Date of Birth: 19/9/1915.
Place of Birth: Aberdeen, Scotland.
Service: British Army.
Rank: Private.
Regiment/Unit/Squadron: [unspecified].
Service Number: 7357732.
Date of Capture: [unspecified].
Theatre of Capture: [unspecified].
Camp Name/Number: Stalag IXC Bad Sulza.
PoW number: 3092.
Date of Death: [unspecified].
Number of Photographs: 1.
Number of Fingerprints: 1.
Number of X-rays: 0.
Number of Cards: 8.
WO 416/100/439

 

Signalman Thomas William Masson, 51 Divisional Signals, Royal Corps of Signals missing France captured St. Valery taken prisoner 12th June 1940
POW Camp: VIIIB


Aberdeen Weekly Journal 15th January 1942

Name: Thomas William Masson.
Date of Birth: 21/04/1920.
Place of Birth: Aberdeen.
Service: British Army.
Rank: Sergeant Major.
Regiment/Unit/Squadron: Royal Corp of Signals.
Service Number: 2581524.
Date of Capture: 12/06/1940.
Theatre of Capture: St Valery.
Camp Name/Number: Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf.
PoW number: 16507.
Date of Death: [unspecified].
Number of Photographs: 2.
Number of Fingerprints: 2.
Number of X-rays: 0.
Number of Cards: 8.
WO 416/249/236

 

Dvr. Samuel E. Bruce, 51 Divisional Signals, Royal Corps of Signals missing France May-June 1940 captured St. Valery and taken prisoner 12th June 1940

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Aberdeen Press and Journal 1st October 1945

Name: Samuel Bruce.
Date of Birth: 01/11/1919.
Place of Birth: Aberdeen.
Service: British Army.
Rank: Signaler [Driver].
Regiment/Unit/Squadron: Royal Corps of Signals.
Service Number: 2581502.
Date of Capture: 12/06/1940.
Theatre of Capture: St Valery.
Camp Name/Number: Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf.
PoW number: 18011.
Date of Death: [unspecified].
Number of Photographs: 1.
Number of Fingerprints: 1.
Number of X-rays: 0.
Number of Cards: 2.
WO 416/44/27

 

Stalag XXA (20A)​

L/Cpl. John Graeme Collins, 1/8th Bn The Lancashire Fusiliers Missing 10th May -16th June 1940 captured and taken prisoner 27th May 1940

Manchester Evening News 27th November 1941

Name: John Graeme Collins.
Date of Birth: 5/8/1918.
Place of Birth: [Manchester].
Service: British Army.
Rank: [Corporal].
Regiment/Unit/Squadron: The Lancashire Fusiliers.
Service Number: 3655474.
Date of Capture: 27 May 1940.
Theatre of Capture: [unspecified].
Camp Name/Number: Stalag XXA Thorn (Poland)
PoW number: 13454.
Date of Death: [unspecified].
Number of Photographs: 0.
Number of Fingerprints: 0.
Number of X-rays: 0.
Number of Cards: 1.
WO 416/73/159

 

Samuel Desmond Windridge, Alexander Grant Mitchell Watson, Donald Cameron Smith, all Middlesex Yeomanry,
2nd Armoured divisional Signals captured Mechili, Libya 8th April 1941
Photo taken in Oflag 79, Brunswick 23rd May 1944