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274743 4G Thursfield, Pte J J, 4912973, DLI

274762 8B Chadwick, Pte J T, 4037229, DLI

274777 4B Foster, Pte D B, 4459157, DLI

274833 8B, Clark, Pte Matthew, 4466398, DLI. From Hartlepool, born 20/2/10. Captured in the desert (6th 8th or 9th DLI) in 1942. Camps PG 66, PG 53 and PG 146 in Italy. Escaped at Italian Armistice in September 1943. Recaptured 15/12/43. Via Stalag 4B and 8B, to work Camps E 744 Kazimiers and E 580, Satan. On the ‘long march’ West from Kazimiers beginning 19/1/45. Liberated by US forces between Hilvershime and Brookbach on 29/4/45.

274842 Sillitoe, Pte W H, 6021016, DLI

274862 4F Hunter, Pte G K, 4451271, DLI
274863 8B Cowburn, Pte R, 4464732, DLI, 16 DLI recruit in July 1940.

274873 4F Greener, Pte J, 4451835, DLI

275010 4F Edwards, L/Cpl A E, 4459110, captured with R Ir Fus

275103 357 Lawler, L/Cpl T, 4449143, DLI

275213 4C Myers, Pte A, 4468199, DLI

275220 4C Holdcroft, Pte S T, 4037288, DLI

275228 4C Davis, L/Cpl M, 4439641, captured with RE

275235 4D Catterall, Pte S, 4467646, DLI

275292 357 Griffiths, Pte D W, 4978406, 2nd/5th Sher F (AO)

275403 4G Nash, Tpr P A, 10602988, RAC

275415 4D Goodwin, Pte G H, 4037272, DLI

275457 4D Tweedy, Pte W, 4470395, DLI

275518 4G Holden, Pte S, 4458896, DLI

The gap between 276000 and 278000 presumably allocated to other Allied POWS

278017 11A Bond, Rfn George William, 3547532, 1 Bn London Irish Rifles (R U Rif). Died 17/4/45. Berlin 1939-45 War Cemetery, 11 Z 14.

278163 357 Clark, Gdsm R W, 2694034, S G. Remembered by ex-PG 53, Italy and Stalag 4D POW Pte Pat O'Sullivan, POW No 228010.

278224 11A Evans, Pte G, 4470174, captured with Linc

278508 11A Archer, Pte H, 4625445, DLI

278526 11A Constantine, Pte N F, 14598121, Sher F

278637 11A Calvey, Tpr R W, 14208810, RAC. Captured serving with 46th Reconnaissance Regt, Salerno, Italy. Held at PG 54, Fara in Sabina. Survivor of the 8/12/43 bombing attack on a POW train at Aquila Viaduct in which over 30 British POWs died.

'He found himself a prisoner of war, along with 900 others, in Fara in Sabina camp. He was only there for a month when the entire camp was assembled and marched to the railway station where they were locked 45 at a time in cattle trucks. As the train rumbled out of the station and across the L’Aquila viaduct Allied bombers arrived, intent on destroying the viaduct. Explosions rocked the train and a hole was torn in the roof of the truck. As Robert scrambled through he found himself on the edge of a 150 foot drop. The train and the first half dozen trucks lay smashed at the bottom of the viaduct and his truck was perched perilously on the very edge. He made his way back along the sides of the remaining trucks, jumped down and ran for it, with German bullets whistling around him....'
Author of the book Name, Rank and Number. See this external site:
http://www.prisonerofwar.org.uk/autumn_2008.htm (dead link, 2022)

278693 Tait, Cpl J E, 4268299, DLI

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