Jones, C B

Driver Cyril Benjamin Jones

Family/Last name:
Jones
Forename(s) and initial(s):
Cyril Benjamin
Place of birth:
Wordsley, Stourbridge, England
Date of birth:
25/8/1915
Nationality:
British
Rank when captured:
Driver
POW number:
6180
Camp
Stalag VIIA Moosburg, Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf / Stalag 344
Data sources
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I have only recently discovered some postcards of my father’s from the end of WWII. He was a driver but went missing quite early on presumed dead until he was discovered as a POW where he spent something like 4 years.  He never spoke about it except to be rude about Germans and Germany whenever they came on TV and my Mother never spoke about her lonely ordeal back home either.  Consequently I know very little and it was pure chance that I recently came across a selection of old postcards (mostly Polish I think) in an old bank statement envelope.  Some were written on the reverse in pencil in my Dad’s handwriting.

I’ve scanned in the key ones and attached them in case they are of interest. I haven’t included one which lists the number of nationality cigarettes he had smoked or one with a list of ships but happy to send those too if you would like to see them.

My Dad’s name was Cyril Benjamin Jones born 25/08/1916 and he was from Wordsley, Stourbridge West Mids.  I do not know what regiment he was with or anything other than he was a driver.  I believe he spent some time in the desert somewhere. He died aged 63 on 23/12/79 from smoking related causes.

On the group photo* attached my dad is on the 2nd row from the back 7th from the left. Card 1 back seems to describe his part in the march to freedom, something I had no idea he had been involved in until I found this card. It seems to put dates to their progress from the evacuation to freedom where he mentions the first good food and ???? life for four years.  (It looks like wine, but he never drank it and I’m more certain it says ‘life’ after it).  I don’t think the front of card 1 has any particular significance as it resembles others in his small collection that he didn’t use.

The 3 photos I have no idea about at all.  Photo 1 seems to be some quarry but why it should be significant to him to keep with these few things is unknown. Photo 2 looks like the grave of a Nazi and photo 3 looks like the funeral of a British person with German soldiers standing by.

I hope these items might be interest to you and add to the known details for others looking too.

Chris Southwood (nee Christine Jones)

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