Clare, Wesley

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Captain David Wesley (Wes) Clare

Family/Last name:
Clare
Forename(s) and initial(s):
David Wesley (Wes)
Date of birth:
13/1/1915
Nationality:
Canada
Service:
Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps
Military Unit:
Canadian Army, Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps
Rank when captured:
Captain
Place of capture:
Dieppe, France
Date of capture:
8/1942
POW number:
26657
Camp
Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf / Stalag 344
Data sources
Other Sources (Family records, personal diary)
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My late father, Dr. (Capt.) Wes Clare was a “guest” at Stalag VIIIB after the Dieppe raid, Aug. 1942. He was a Canadian Doctor who won the Military Cross for his actions trying to save lives at Dieppe.

I understand part of the camp is now a museum. If you have any info in regard to my father’s incarceration at VIII-B/ 344 Lamsdorf, please forward it on to me.

I have a PDF version of his war diary which would cover his time there up to the “Death March” and notes while on that March, until his liberation by members of the British 8th Army, on Easter Mon, 1945, at Fallingbostel Camp, Germany.

Scott Clare,

Clare kept a diary of his long march until his liberation by members of the British 8th Army, on Easter Mon, 1945, at Fallingbostel Camp, Germany.

A map of the route of his long march is available as part of the Lamsdorf Long March project.

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