2735311 Guardsman Herbert WAREHAM, 2 Armoured Recce Welsh Guards: POW

Date of Enlistment: 21 December 1939
Army Number: 2735311
Rank: Guardsman
Name: Herbert WAREHAM
Unit: 2 Armoured Recce Welsh Guards

Date of Birth: 21 March 1918
Place of Birth: Birmingham

POW Number: 90991
POW Camps: Stalag XIIA, Stalag IVB, Stalag IVG

Date of Capture: 9 September 1944
Place of Capture: Prince Albert Canal, Belgium

 

Name: Bert or Herbert [Herbert] Wareham . Date of Birth: 21/03/1918 . Place of Birth:... | The National Archives
Reference: WO 416/379/419
Name: Bert or Herbert [Herbert] Wareham.
Date of Birth: 21/03/1918.
Place of Birth: Birmingham.
Service: British Army.
Rank: Private.
Regiment/Unit/Squadron: [Welsh Guards].
Service Number: 2735311.
Date of Capture: [unspecified].
Theatre of Capture: [unspecified].
Camp Name/Number: Stalag XIIA Limburg.
PoW number: 90991.
Date of Death: [unspecified].
Number of Photographs: 0.
Number of Fingerprints: 0.
Number of X-rays: 0.
Number of Cards: 4.
Date: [1939-1945]

 

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

1. No. 2735311
RANK - GUARDSMAN
SURNAME - WAREHAM
CHRISTIAN NAMES - HERBERT
DECORATIONS -

2. UNIT (ARMY) - 2ND (ARMD RECCE BN) WELSH GUARDS

3. DIVISION (ARMY) - GUARDS ARMOURED DIVISION

4. DATE OF BIRTH - 21ST MARCH 1918

5. DATE OF ENLISTMENT - 21/12/39

6. CIVILIAN TRADE OR PROFESSION - CHOCOLATE PACKER

7. PRIVATE ADDRESS - 103 CHEVERTON ROAD, NORTHFIELD, BIRMINGHAM

8. PLACE AND DATE OF ORIGINAL CAPTURE - PRINCE ALBERT CANAL BELGIUM 9/9/44

9. WERE YOU WOUNDED WHEN CAPTURED? - YES

10. MAIN CAMPS OR HOSPITALS IN WHICH IMPRISONED
Camp No. / Location / From / Till
LAZARETT DUSSELDORF 6/10/44 - 28/10/44
STALAG 12A LIMBURG 21/10/44 - 28/11/44
STALAG 4B MUHLBERG 2/12/44 - 21/1/45


11. WERE YOU IN A WORKING CAMP?
Location / From/ Till / Nature of Work
4G 231 KRIEBETHAL 23/1/45 - 10/2/45 PAPER FACTORY
4G 199 GRUNAU 10/2/45 - 16/4/45 PAPER FACTORY


12. DID YOU SUFFER FROM ANY SERIOUS ILLNESSES WHILE A P/W?
Nature of Illness / Cause / Duration
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12 b. DID YOU RECEIVE ADEQUATE MEDICAL TREATMENT?
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GENERAL QUESTIONNAIRE PART II TOP SECRET

1. No. 2735311
RANK - GUARDSMAN
SURNAME - WAREHAM
CHRISTIAN NAMES - HERBERT


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).
YES. MARSHALLING AREA, GOSPORT
JUNE 12 1944. DIV. INTELLIGENCE OFFICER
( b ) Were you lectured on escape and evasion? (State where, when and by whom.
AS ABOVE.

3. INTERROGATION after capture:
Were you specially interrogated by the enemy? (State where, when and methods employed by enemy).
YES. LIMBURG 27/10/44
METHODS SAME AS OUR OWN

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.)
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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 13/5/45
Signature H Wareham