Private S Barthorpe

Family/Last name:
Barthorpe
Forename(s) and initial(s):
S
Nationality:
Service number:
4975425
Rank when captured:
Place of capture:
Norway
Date of capture:
5/1940
POW number:
343
Camp
Working Party
Data sources
The National Archives (UK)Other Sources (Researcher Keith Newman)

Sydney Barthorpe drove the camp bulldozer at BAB21,   he was always allowed out of camp without a guard.  He was instrumental in removing the concrete rubble to allow access to the dead and wounded when BAB21 was bombed during the last months months of 1944.

He also featured in the Channel Four documentary The Long March to Freedom.

 

Sydney Barthorpe

Sydney Barthorpe On the left.

Sydney Barthorpe

The Long March to Freedom.

March route from BAB 21 by Sydney Barthorpe.

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