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Albert Brown

Family/Last name:
Brown
Forename(s) and initial(s):
Albert
Service:
Canadian Army
Military Unit:
Canadian Army, 11th Field Company (RCA), Royal Canadian Engineers
Camp
Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf / Stalag 344
Data sources
Other Sources (Relative's report)
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I happened upon your website today and did not see my uncle, Sapper Albert Brown from Sarnia Ontario, serving with the 11th Field Company, Royal Canadian Engineers, listed there. According to his first-person account in the book “Fragments of War: Stories from Survivors of World War II” by J. Hibbert, he said this:

“In that time period I was among a group of fifty POWs sent to work outside the main camp at Lamsdorf. I spent about eight months as one of a work party at a cabinet-making shop in the small town of Oberglogau. Others worked in a sugar factory there. One of them was Perry Ross, 2nd Field Coy, RCE, from Toronto.” (p. 142)

He also said: “Back to Lamsdorf again and then thirty-five of us were sent out to a small camp close to a village on the Czechoslovakian border. From there we marched four or five miles into the forest each morning to work as lumberjacks. We cut timber of mine props. Hard work but food rations were slightly better than at Lamsdorf …” (p 143.)

I wanted to be sure that Uncle Al and the other gentleman he mentioned were listed on your website.

Additionally, if you know the name of the camp he said he was moved to (the one close to the Czechoslovakian border) I would be so grateful to know its name.

Karie Brown

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