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Lance Corporal Comer Douglas Stillwell Board

Family/Last name:
Board
Forename(s) and initial(s):
Comer Douglas Stillwell
Place of birth:
Auckland, New Zealand
Date of birth:
7/10/1918
Service number:
23825
Military Unit:
New Zealand Army (2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force), 18th Battalion (2nd NZEF)
Rank when captured:
Lance Corporal
Place of capture:
Crete
Date of capture:
5/1941
POW number:
7662
Camp
Dulag 183 Salonika, Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf / Stalag 344
Data sources
The National Archives (UK)Other Sources (Relative's Report + WO416 records transcribed by and held at the UK National Archives. Data processed and prepared by Rick Catt and Brian Cooper.)
View a commemorative certificate for this prisoner

My late father was a POW at Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf from about August 1941 until the 26/05/1945. He was captured at Crete in May 1941.
His name was Lance Corporal Comer Board of the New Zealand 18th Battalion.

His Army number was 23825 and Prisoner Number 7662.

I found this photograph amongst his possessions along with a list of names which I have placed on the front.

On the back the photo it is says, “Taken at Grosse Miihle (Flour Mill) Neisse 1942. The soldiers are from Australia New Zealand and the UK.

I believe this town is now called Nysa which about 21km from Lamsdorf. My father spoke of working in the flour mill as part of the prison life.

Editor’s Note: WO392 POW Lists 1944 and 1945 state the rank as Private.

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