2733394 Guardsman John Henry SMITH, 2 Armoured Welsh Guards: POW

Date of Enlistment: 25 January 1932
Army Number: 2733394
Rank: Guardsman
Name: John Henry SMITH
Unit: 2 Armoured Welsh Guards

Date of Birth: 27 April 1910
Place of Birth: Guildford

Date of Capture: 3 August 1944
Place of Capture: Caumont Sector, France

POW Number: 84758
POW Camps: Stalag XIIA, Stalag IVD

 

Name: John H Smith . Date of Birth: 27/04/1910 . Place of Birth: Guildford . ... | The National Archives
Reference: WO 416/335/119
Name: John H Smith.
Date of Birth: 27/04/1910.
Place of Birth: Guildford.
Service: [British Army].
Rank: Private.
Regiment/Unit/Squadron: [Welsh Guards].
Service Number: 2733394.
Date of Capture: [unspecified].
Theatre of Capture: [unspecified].
Camp Name/Number: Stalag XIIA Limburg an der Lahn.
PoW number: 84758.
Date of Death: [unspecified].
Number of Photographs: 0.
Number of Fingerprints: 0.
Number of X-rays: 0.
Number of Cards: 2.
Date: [1939-1945]

 

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PART I.
GENERAL QUESTIONNAIRE FOR BRITISH/AMERICAN EX-PRISONERS OF WAR.

1. No. 2733394
RANK - Guardsman
SURNAME - Smith
CHRISTIAN NAMES - John Henry
DECORATIONS - 1939-43 Star

2. UNIT (ARMY) - 2nd Army. Bn. Welsh Guards

3. DIVISION (ARMY) - Guards Armoured Div.

4. DATE OF BIRTH - 27/4/1910

5. DATE OF ENLISTMENT - 25th January 1932

6. CIVILIAN TRADE OR PROFESSION - Butcher

7. PRIVATE ADDRESS - The Shanty, Liddington Hill, Worplesdon, Guildford, Surrey

8. PLACE AND DATE OF ORIGINAL CAPTURE - 3rd August [1944], Caumont Sector

9. WERE YOU WOUNDED WHEN CAPTURED? - No

10. MAIN CAMPS OR HOSPITALS IN WHICH IMPRISONED
Camp No. / Location / From / Till
Limburg ? 24th Aug - 7th Sept. (approx.)
Mühlberg ? 10th Sept. - 17 Sept. (approx.)


11. WERE YOU IN A WORKING CAMP?
Location / From/ Till / Nature of Work
Alsleben 24th Sept. 44 - 22nd Dec. 1944
Etzdorf 23 Dec. 1945 - till Released


12. DID YOU SUFFER FROM ANY SERIOUS ILLNESSES WHILE A P/W?
Nature of Illness / Cause / Duration
No
12 b. DID YOU RECEIVE ADEQUATE MEDICAL TREATMENT?
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GENERAL QUESTIONNAIRE PART II TOP SECRET

1. No. 2733394
RANK - Guardsman
SURNAME - Smith
CHRISTIAN NAMES - John Henry


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).
By Intelligence Officer before coming Overseas.
( b ) Were you lectured on escape and evasion? (State where, when and by whom.
By, as above.

3. INTERROGATION after capture:
Were you specially interrogated by the enemy? (State where, when and methods employed by enemy).
At Challons [? Châlons-en-Champagne] on day after arrival there.
4 days Solitary Confinement, with questioning every other day.


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?)
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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.)
Breaking open of Sugar Sacks and disposal of machine tools and implements at Sugar Factory. Go Slow methods classed as Sabotage by Germans, loss and breaking of tools at Coal Mine.


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).
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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?
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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 21/4/45
Signature J. Smith