253201 4D Chamberlain, Alwyn, T/213834, RASC.
Reported missing, 20/6/40. Capured Tobruk. alongside friend Alfie Granger.
Served in 9th Light Field Ambulance, captured Tobruk. Camp 70 Italy in 1943, see PG 70 group photos, then via Stalag 4B to Bad Schmiedeberg W03, see 1944 photo.
Yorkshire Evening Post 3/12/43: 'The following Leeds and District men have been moved from prisoner of war camps in
Italy to Germany.....Dvr A Chamberlain (25), RASC, mother lives Kirkby Malzeard and sister Holbeck Lane, PG 70 to
Stalag 4B.'

I managed to trace 'Nev' Chamberlain via the phone book after Pat O'Sullivan told me that his first name wasn't 'Neville' but Alwyn. This was a rare enough first name to make tracing him via the phone book relatively easy. Like Pat, 'Nev' was a mine of information about the camp--and about his old pal Alfie--and I subsequently went up to Leeds and interviewed him at length for the IWM in 2001.
The direct link to the interview is:
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80024519

Two of the PG 70 group photographs on the site were provided by him. The first features Chamberlain and also Garbutt, Granger and Kennerley in a group of around 40 men:

http://stalag4d.atspace.co.uk/page121.html

The second, Alwyn told me, was the 'Leeds group', presumably of Camp PG 70 POWs hailing from Leeds:

http://stalag4d.atspace.co.uk/page122.html

253433, 4D Price, Gnr J T, 921063, RA.
Reported missing, Cyrenaica, 20/6/42, serving with 277 Battery, 68 Heavy AA Regt.
PG 85 Italy in 1943.
His 1945 home address, '7 Swann Road, Hursthill, near Bilston, Staffs. was written in his own hand on a postcard of Halle preserved by Pat O'Sullivan. Awarded Territorial Efficiency Medal 1946.


Four Early Departures.


In May 1944, four men, Kennerley, Sangster, Washington and Woolley were transferred out of the camp to a Stalag 4C workcamp. Brendan Greene at some stage also departed, for Stalag 3A.

Eight Decades Later:

Situation so far: in the late 1990s I made a concerted effort to trace the 23 men featured on the photograph. The results of this was that I traced two men still living and interviewed them at length for the IWM. I contacted the friends and families of eight others, who, it emerged had died before I started my research. Add my father and that makes 11 traced in total.

Only eight returned POW/Liberation Questionnaires seem to have survived in the National Archives, as noted above.

This investigation remains live. Any and all further information on these men gratefully received.

Last updated: 4/12/23.


The 1944 Bad Schmiedeberg POW Group Photograph.

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