Saturday 22 October 2016. Lamsdorf POW Commemorative Day, London. We never knew it until recently, but it turns out that Marion and I share a bit of wartime history. Her Uncle Roland and my dad, Hugh, both were Prisoners of War in Lamsdorf Camp, in South Poland (now Czec Republic). Dad might even have been treated by Roland or kicked a ball with him. Roland, Marion's mother's younger brother, was a medical officer captured at Dunkirk. He was taken to a couple of different Oflags (Officers' camp in old inadequate castle where he became bored), but asked to be transferred to help in the medical care of the everyday soldiers in one of the biggest of the Stalags, VIIIb, 344. It was west of Kraków, and North of Brno. Thus he spent virtually the whole war
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