I thought I'd post up my POW paybooks (sorry for another paybook thread) - feel free to add any info you can to flesh out these men's stories - not surprisingly a few overlap with earlier posts. As there are about 90 of them it may take some time to add them all and to do it. Alistair
7518861 Leonard BRATHWAITE, RAMC taken POW 20/6/42 - given the date I assume at the fall of Tobruk - he was repatriated in 1943
550923 John ROBINSON, 102nd Anti/Tank Regiment RA (The Northumberland Hussars), captured 2/6/41 on Crete, he was repatriated 1943
7356715 Archibald Stanley LANE, 12th Casualty Clearing Station RAMC, captured 4/6/40 - 12 CCS were located at Chapeau Rouge at Rosendael - there is a write up on the unit here BBC - WW2 People's War - 12th Casualty Clearing Station: France 1940 I assume he remained with the wounded
5490556 Charles STOCKER, 2/5th Queens Regiment, captured 20/5/40 near Abberville - again peopleswar has a bit about this from another member if the battalion BBC - WW2 People's War - Into captivity, Abbeville 1940 - 1945
22207444 (previously 781644) Alfred Ernest Crawford, 51st (Lowland) Heavy Regiment Royal Artillery, captured St Valery 12/6/40 He died 16/7/52 while with 15 Medium Regiment RA in Germany with the BAOR, he was at Holton park Military Hospital when he died of a Cerebral Tumour.
Ian Eaton DECENT NX4143, 2/1st AIF, captured 2/6/41 on Crete and was wounded in the left arm by shrapnel
A fabulous array of books once again Alistair. I still have not been able to locate one of these in regards to one of my boys from Chindit 1.
T/558374 William Roy EMMETT, RASC attached to 68th Medium Regiment RA, captured at the fall of Tobruk
T/92359 Ernest SAUNDERS, 10 Company RASC, 22nd Armoured Brigade, captured at the fall of Tobruk 21/6/42
10603469 Walter Clement BAILEY - 1st Airborne Reconnaisance Squadron taken POW at Arnhem Bridge - I have been told he was Freddie Gough's driver but haven't been able to confirm that.