Evans, Wilfrid Reynolds

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Private Wilfrid Reynolds (Reyn) Evans

Family/Last name:
Evans
Forename(s) and initial(s):
Wilfrid Reynolds (Reyn)
Place of birth:
Gisborne, New Zealand
Date of birth:
1911
Nationality:
New Zealand
Service number:
36250
Military Unit:
New Zealand Army (2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force), 2nd New Zealand Division, 27th Machine Gun Battalion (2nd NZ Div.)
Rank when captured:
Private
Place of capture:
Crete
POW number:
5256
Camp
Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf / Stalag 344
Working Party
E96
Data sources
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Reynolds daughter provided the following information:

Private Wilfrid Reynolds (Reyn) Evans – 36250, 27th Machine Gun Battalion, New Zealand Armed Forces. Captured during the Battle of Crete after having spent some time hiding out in the mountains after missing the evacuation. Dad arrived at Stalag VIIIB on 29th January 1942 – POW number 5256. He was sent with a working party E96 to Krappitz to work in a cardboard factory. In May 1943 he was sent back to the Stalag and was under the guidance of Dr Selwyn de Clive Lowe as a Medical Orderly until being repatriated in October 1943.

Also:

My father was captured during the Battle of Crete where he spent several months as a PoW before being shipped in the cattle trucks to Stalag VIIIB, a trip that took 15 days. He arrived there in January 1942 and later repatriated as a Medical Orderly in October 1943 having worked closely with Dr Selwyn de Clive Lowe who played a major part in dad’s life. One of my brothers is named after this doctor, who dad credits for saving his life, not sure how but it is linked to his repatriation somehow. He was part of a working party E96, a cardboard factory in Krappitz. His PoW Number 5256 and he was in the New Zealand Army, 27th Machine Gun Battalion, 36250.

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