I have just joined today and am looking for any info on Graham C Pearce unit number 1885447 Royal Engineers I have found on ancestry that Graham was a POW in Wolfsberg during ww2 I was wondering if anybody has any more info than I have already got from ancestry Thank You Judi
Hi Judi Welcome You mean this record: UK, British Prisoners of War, 1939-1945 Name: G C Pearce Rank: Sapper Army Number: 1885447 Regiment: Royal Engineers POW Number: 2282 Camp Type: Stalag Camp Number: XVIII-A Camp Location: Wolfsberg, Austria Record Office: Royal Engineers Record Office, Ditchling Road, Brighton, Sussex Record Office Number: 9 You can apply for his service records - Request records of deceased service personnel - GOV.UK You can also check out to see if he filled in a Liberation Questionaire - POW Liberation Questionnaires - Arcre As it seems he survived the war then there is little else on Ancestry that you can find about his military service. Once you have his service records - unless you already have them - I would suggest you can then look into the various War Diaries which will tell you generally where he was and was he was doing up to the point of his capture. TD
You can also apply to the International Committee of the Red Cross to request any records they might have relating to where he was held - you may find that he was in more than one camp and that he just happened to be in Wolfsberg when that particular list was compiled. The next window for applications opens 1st April. Requests for information about people held during the Spanish Civil War or the Second World War: Quarterly limit reached
thank you for the reply Graham is still alive he will be 100 this year I will look into Questionnaires Judi
Judi If he is still alive then download the forms for his service record and fill them in his name - they will be free for him, just make sure he signs them TD