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Guys a fellow reenactor has asked me to try to get some basic info on his grandfather.
Name: David Charles Edwards
Service Number:4199610
Rank: Fusilier
fought in Arromanches.
He was captured shortly after and sent to a camp in Poland called Stalag 8B.
He was forced onto a death march but survived.
Any info to help him gratefully received Thanks
Dave
After pointing him to the forces war records site he has this additional info
POW No.82801
Fate: Prisoner of war
It seems that it was written whilst he was a POW, it says 'Resided town: Stalag 8B, Teschen'.
'Resided country: Poland'.
Attested 28 May 1940. He departed the regiment on the 12 Sept 1945, moving to the RASC. Does your friend know which battalion he was with?
Thanks Al sorry no that's all the info he has but from what I can tell it can be one of three 4th, 6th and 7th not that that helps much
Never use Forces War Records and tell your friend to make sure his DD is cancelled or they will keep taking money from his account.
Will do mate thanks for that
I can't see his name on the 4, 6th, & 7th Bn missing 44-45. Maybe he was attached to Brigade HQ.
Also Arromanche! no fighting here by the time 158 Inf Bde landed on the 23/24th June. They only paused at the beaches, within 24hrs they had already moved beyond Bayeaux. I wonder if he landed on D-Day 6th June, but i'm not sure who with? I think you need to question your friend, just in case there are other little titbits to be mentioned. I would certainly expect Caen and Evrecy to be part of the conversation, as they took place in mid-July, indeed most of the early POW's are taken at this point. I would expect a veteran of 158 Inf Bde to have mentioned Evrecy/Caen rather than Arromanche, which really only had relevence to the D-Day Troops, who had to fight to secure it.
Thanks Al will do mate though he says his granddad used to visit a cemetary near Arromanches to pay his respects to fallen comrades.
The main cemetery at Ryes:
A small number of RWF, a mixture of 4th, 6th + 7th Bn's
http://rwf-forum.co.uk/vBulletin/att...tid=4176&stc=1
Thanks Again Al