Am Gmaisberg 17, 92366 Hohenfels, Germany
The German Army founded a training area near Hohenfels, Bavaria in 1938. A troop camp for trainees, located in a high valley surrounded by dense woodland and hills at a homestead called ‘Polnrich’, was commandeered for use as a Prisoner of War camp in 1939. At first it was used for Allied NCOs and named Oflag IIIC but was later renamed Stalag 383 as it expanded with other ranks. The camp comprised 400 detached accommodation huts, 30 feet (9.1 m) x 14 feet (4.3 m), each typically housing 14 men. More were built towards the end of the war as prisoners were moved in from other camps as the Russian front advanced from the east. The name, Oflag III-C, was re-assigned to a camp at Lübben (Spreewald) and operated between August 1940 and June 1942. On April 24, 1945, Major General Stanley Eric Reinhart’s 65th Infantry Division captured Hohenfels. Major General Gustav Geiger, staff and guards surrendered. The POW camp with numerous British inmates was liberated.
Later, between 1945-1949 the site became a displaced persons camp. The Americans subsequently retained the site and it doubled in size
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Last name |
First name |
Rank |
Nationality |
Unit |
Service number |
Camp |
POW number |
Baker |
Herbert Richard |
Sergeant |
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British Army, Reconnaissance Corps |
6472627 |
Stalag 383 Hohenfels |
138538 |
Cardus |
George Edward |
|
British |
|
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Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf / Stalag 344, Stalag VIIA Moosburg, Stalag 383 Hohenfels, PG 52 Pian de Coreglia / Chiavari |
30642 |
Daler |
Terence R |
Sergeant |
British |
British Army, Royal Army Service Corps |
94987 |
Stalag 383 Hohenfels |
21642 |
Dix |
Reginald G |
Lance Corporal |
|
British Army, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers |
7586371 |
Stalag 383 Hohenfels |
11918 |
Draper |
Francis Arthur |
Corporal |
British |
British Army, King's Royal Rifle Corps |
793341 |
Stalag VB Villingen, Stalag 383 Hohenfels |
547 |
Foley (Alias Francis) |
William Harry |
Sergeant |
British |
British Army, Royal Artillery |
782192 |
Stalag XVIIIA Wolfsberg, Stalag 383 Hohenfels |
5103 |
Fynn |
Edward W |
Lance Sergeant |
British |
British Army, Royal Signals |
2568788 |
Stalag 383 Hohenfels, Stalag XXIB Schubin, Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf / Stalag 344 |
4253 |
Gear |
Roy Albert |
Corporal |
|
New Zealand Army (2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force) |
9887 |
Stalag XVIIID Marburg, Stalag 383 Hohenfels |
5070 |
Hodgkinson |
Brian Gilmore |
|
|
Royal Canadian Air Force, 401 Sqdn (RCAF) |
R 59033 |
Stalag 383 Hohenfels |
90144 |
Hourston |
Charles W |
Bombardier |
|
British Army, Royal Artillery |
1433339 |
Stalag 383 Hohenfels |
7374 |
Jordan |
Harold E Jordon or |
Corporal |
|
British Army, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) |
6137657 |
Stalag 383 Hohenfels |
132698 |
Knott |
John A |
Lance Corporal |
British |
British Army, Welsh Guards |
2615641 |
Stalag XXIB Schubin, Stalag 383 Hohenfels |
3953 (and 142820 ?) |
Lay |
Walter Clarence Frederick |
Corporal |
British |
British Army, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry |
5384156 |
Stalag XXA Thorn, Stalag 383 Hohenfels |
10599 |
Layisas |
Hatdji Iwans |
Sergeant |
|
British Army, Cyprus Regiment |
CY/1048 |
Stalag 383 Hohenfels |
10545 |
MacConnell |
Thomas Hicks |
|
British |
British Army, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, 2nd Battalion (Cameron H'landers) |
2935328 |
PG 52 Pian de Coreglia / Chiavari, Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf / Stalag 344, Stalag 383 Hohenfels |
30042 |
MacLaren |
Frederick William |
Company Sergeant Major |
|
British Army, Royal Engineers |
6280241 |
Stalag XVIIIA Wolfsberg, Stalag 383 Hohenfels |
2063 |
McGinty |
Michael McGenty or |
Private |
|
British Army, Pioneer Corps |
13008490 |
Stalag 383 Hohenfels |
5465 |
McPhee |
William |
Lance Bombardier |
British |
British Army, Royal Artillery |
324639 |
Stalag 383 Hohenfels |
21878 |
McPherson |
Sidney Dugald |
Corporal |
|
Australian Army (2nd Australian Imperial Force), 2/2 Battalion (2AIF) |
NX2365 |
Stalag XIIIC Hammelburg, Stalag 383 Hohenfels |
10309 |
McRae |
Hugh |
Corporal |
|
British Army, Black Watch |
2750837 |
Stalag 383 Hohenfels |
14499 |
Perry |
Owen Joseph |
|
|
|
VX434 |
Stalag XVIIIA Wolfsberg, Stalag XVIIIC Markt Pongau, Oflag IIIB Wehrmachtlager Tibor/Zuellichau, Stalag 383 Hohenfels, Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf / Stalag 344, Stalag XID Oerbke / Fallingbostel |
678 |
Philips |
Charlie Richard |
|
|
British Army, Royal Engineers |
|
Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf / Stalag 344, Stalag 383 Hohenfels |
16253 |