Private Dennis Alan (known as Alan) Freeth

Family/Last name:
Freeth
Forename(s) and initial(s):
Dennis Alan (known as Alan)
Place of birth:
Worcestershire
Date of birth:
30/9/1919
Nationality:
Service number:
5251169
Rank when captured:
Place of capture:
Dunkirk
Date of capture:
1942
POW number:
36145
Camp
Working Party
Data sources
The National Archives (UK)Other Sources (Relative's report + WO416 records transcribed by and held at the UK National Archives. Data processed and prepared by Rick Catt and Brian Cooper.)

Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 10:22 PM

Subject: New prisoner name

My uncle D. A. Freeth  (known as Allan  and married to my Aunt Margaret nee Williams ) was at BAB 21 Stalag VIIIB/344.

His details D. A. FREETH Pte No. 5251169.

(1st Battalion I think) of the Worcestershire Regiment. Pow number 36145.

It says in the records that he was captured in 1942…but that may be when he was sent to this camp as he was really captured at Dunkirk while they were trying to keep the Germans back to aid the escape on the beaches, he remarked that they weren’t too pleased that lots of French soldiers headed straight past them to the beaches whilst they had to stay and fight!.

I remember him saying that pre war he was in the TA, and that they were liberated by the Russians who had no food and they were pointed in the direction of the Allied front. He died in the mid 1980s.

It would be nice to see his name on your website

Rob Spence

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