223879 9C Holmes, Pte W, 4461331, DLI
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223881 Luft 3 Turner, Sgt J E, 1525953, RA
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223885 4C Reed, Pte E T, 6411923, Hamp
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223886 4C Wiltshire, Tpr H, 5666394, N'd F
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223894 4C Coleman, Pte D, 3327628, HLI
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223895 9C Downey, Pte E, 4350296, E Yorks
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223896 4C Corfield, Pte E J, 10601576
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223901 4C Meron, Tpr A, 7943195, RAC
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223902 4C Maxwell, L/Cpl A W, 6097183, Buffs
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223904 4C Griffith, Dvr L H, T/119358, RASC
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223913 4C Moore, Spr F, 1875627, RE
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223916 4C Cooke, Gnr H W, 994033, RA
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223922 4B Redman, Gnr B, 1091349, RA
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223923 4C Pocock, L/Bdr S E, 1124052, RA
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223929 9C Avery, Tpr R J, 7943275, RAC
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223934 4C Barker, Dvr A E, 2056791, RASC
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223940 4C Ellison, Pte J, 4458689, DLI
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223941 4G Royl, Pte L F, 5499042, Hamp
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223948 4C Greenwood, Pte F, 4862869, Leic
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223949 4C Greaves, Pte T, 4861894 Leic
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223950 4C Budd, Pte E R, 64111852, Hamp
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223952 4C Fell, Pte J L, 3661229, HLI
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223958 4C Emmerson, Gnr E G, 1091254, RA
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223961 Dance, Tpr E C, 7942801, RAC
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223962 4C Freeman, Pte H C, 4457413, DLI
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223962 same number as above 9C Watmough, Pte T, 3714103, Worc
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223964 9C Stephens, Pte R H, 6021932, Essex
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223965 9C Beaumont, Cpl R, 4034141, DLI
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223966 9C Cooper, Spr G F, 1912718, RE
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223968 4DZ King, Tpr A J P, 7941798, RAC
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223969 4DZ Studd, Gnr S, 896587, RA
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223970 4DZ Coates, Gnr T W, 907501 RA
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223975 4B Burton, Gnr A L, 1091226, RA
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223976 4G Hudson, Pte T, 4346566, E York
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223977 4C Ledbury, Gnr William N E, 945247, RA. Captured 26/2/43, Sidi Nisir, serving with 155 Bty, 172 Field
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Regt. Previously held at PG 66 and PG 82. Via Stalag 4B to Stalag 4C, working underground and on the surface at the Maltheuren coal mine '...to our final Camp, 1VC at Maltheuren, near Brux, we passed some immense works, having three
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big chimneys and noticed that they were known as the Hermann Goering Works. We later found that they produced 26 different products from the soft brown coal mined around them.......On 12th May came the first air raid upon the Hermann Goering Works. It was a clear sunny day and it was always assumed by we POWs that the Americans attacked by day and we British by night. However this particular raid hit the main parts bang-on, sending a mushroom cloud into the air. I could not contain my joy and so annoyed a sentry, that he asked me why I laughed. I replied that surely he would have done likewise had he been a POW in my country and his Luftwaffe friends had attacked one of our works..... ......Following that first raid, on arrival at the pit top that night the enemy ordered some of us to go to mass graves on the roadside, in order to pick up body parts from the thousand or so victims of that raid...' See this external site:
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/categories/c55374/
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Also this Czech language site has details and photos of the 12/5/44 raid, in which over 30 Commonwealth POWs died:
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http://litvinov.sator.eu/kategorie/litvinov/v-castech-obce/zaluzi/pred-65-lety-uskutecnili-spojenci-prvni-nalet-na-stw-v-zalu
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and: http://litvinov.sator.eu/kategorie/litvinov/v-castech-obce/zaluzi/prehled-naletu-na-chemickou-tovarnu-stw-ag-v-zaluzi-u-litvi
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