Date of Enlistment: 5 January 1940 Army Number: 2735415 Rank: Guardsman Name: Bryn WATKINS Unit: 2 Welsh Guards Date of Birth: 5 May 1919 Place of Birth: Tonypandy, Wales POW Number: 9712 POW Camps: Stalag XXA, Stalag XXB, Stalag IIE, Date of Capture: 25 May 1940 Place of Capture: Boulogne
Name: Bryn Watkins . Date of Birth: 05/05/1919 . Place of Birth: Tonypandy . ... | The National Archives Reference: WO 416/381/127 Description: Name: Bryn Watkins. Date of Birth: 05/05/1919. Place of Birth: Tonypandy. Service: British Army. Rank: Private. Regiment/Unit/Squadron: 2 Welsh Guards. Service Number: 2735415. Date of Capture: 23/05/1940. Theatre of Capture: Boulogne. Camp Name/Number: Stalag XXA Thorn. PoW number: 9712. Date of Death: [unspecified]. Number of Photographs: 0. Number of Fingerprints: 0. Number of X-rays: 0. Number of Cards: 3. Date: [1939-1945]
View Record via Ancestry PART I. GENERAL QUESTIONNAIRE FOR BRITISH/AMERICAN EX-PRISONERS OF WAR. 1. No. 2735415 RANK - GDSM. SURNAME - WATKINS CHRISTIAN NAMES - Bryn DECORATIONS - 2. UNIT (ARMY) - 2nd Welsh Guards 3. DIVISION (ARMY) - 4. DATE OF BIRTH - May 5th 1919 5. DATE OF ENLISTMENT - 5/1/40 6. CIVILIAN TRADE OR PROFESSION - Labourer 7. PRIVATE ADDRESS - 3, Bridge Street, Tonypandy, Rhondda, S. Wales, G. Britain 8. PLACE AND DATE OF ORIGINAL CAPTURE - Boulogne, 25th May 1940 9. WERE YOU WOUNDED WHEN CAPTURED? - No 10. MAIN CAMPS OR HOSPITALS IN WHICH IMPRISONED Camp No. / Location / From / Till Stalag XXA Thorn July 25th 1940 - April 9th 1943 Stalag XXB Willenburg April 9th 1943 - Jan 24th 1945 Stalag IIE Rastow March 17th - May 2nd 1945 11. WERE YOU IN A WORKING CAMP? Location / From/ Till / Nature of Work Bromburg July 25th 1940 - April 9th 1943 Labourer Tugenhof Feb. 13th 1944 - Jan. 24 1945 Labourer 12. DID YOU SUFFER FROM ANY SERIOUS ILLNESSES WHILE A P/W? Nature of Illness / Cause / Duration Pleurisy Don't know 11 months 12 b. DID YOU RECEIVE ADEQUATE MEDICAL TREATMENT? Yes GENERAL QUESTIONNAIRE PART II TOP SECRET 1. No. 2735415 RANK - GDSM SURNAME - Watkins CHRISTIAN NAMES - Bryn 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). No ( b ) Were you lectured on escape and evasion? (State where, when and by whom. No 3. INTERROGATION after capture: Were you specially interrogated by the enemy? (State where, when and methods employed by enemy). No 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?) No 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.) No 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). No 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? - 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 9th May 1945 Signature Bryn Watkins
