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Bernard Cookson

Family/Last name:
Cookson
Forename(s) and initial(s):
Bernard
Nationality:
British
Service number:
4976340.
Military Unit:
British Army, Sherwood Foresters, 1/5th Battalion (Sherwwods)
Place of capture:
Near Inchville, France
Date of capture:
6/1940
POW number:
16897
Camp
Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf / Stalag 344
Working Party
E372 Waldenstein (Górazdze), E770 Ottmuth (Otmęt), E799 Schönhorst (Krasiejów)
Data sources
Other Sources (Relative Report)
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My father was in Stalag VIIIB from 15 July 1940 until the end of the war. He was captured near Incheville around the 14 June. He was in A coy, 1/5th Bn, Sherwood Foresters and became part of A Brigade, Beauman Division when the 51st Div and the lines of communication troops (which he was part of) were cut off by the German advance and continued to fight after the evacuation of Dunkirk.

He was Bernard Cookson, Service Number 4976340. His POW Records show him working at Eichberg Kr. Bunzlau from 3.8.40 then at
E.82 Winzenberg then E372 (here for nearly 2 years), E770 and E799.

Nigel Cookson

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