Burgess, J E
Private James Ernest Burgess
Could you please add my late Father to the list of POWs at Lamsdorf.
6086714 Pte James Ernest Burgess
‘D’ Coy, 2/7th Queen’s Royal Regiment (West Surreys)
Captured Abbeville, France on 21st May 1940.
Marched to Belgium on foot then transported by cattle truck to Stalag XXIB Schubin (Szubin) given POW No.881
6/40 XXIB Schubin (Szubin)
6/40 XXIA Schildburg (Ostrzeszow)
7/40 Work detachment Vitzerie
10/40 XXID Posen (Poznan)
12/41 Work detachment Litzmannstadt (Lodz)
4/44 344 Lamsdorf
4/44 Work detachment E746 Konigshutte (Chorzow)
1/45 Commenced ‘Death march’ westwards
4/45 XIIID Nuremburg
4/45 VIIA Moosburg
4/45 Liberated
5/45 Returned to UK
Please find attached 2 photos. In the group photo Dad is standing on the right.
Brian.
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