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Acting Sergeant Gordon Leslie Hines

Family/Last name:
Hines
Forename(s) and initial(s):
Gordon Leslie
Place of birth:
Doncaster
Date of birth:
28/11/1918
Service number:
1184039
Military Unit:
British Army, Royal Engineers, A Company, 1st Motor Depot (RE)
Rank when captured:
Acting Sergeant
Place of capture:
Libya
Date of capture:
28/5/1942
POW number:
221441
Camp
PG 65 Gravina, PG 53 Sforzacosta, Macerata, Stalag IXB Wegscheide/Bad Orb, Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf / Stalag 344, Stalag XIIID Nürnberg Langwasser
Working Party
E769
Data sources
Other Sources (POW's own account)
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GORDON LESLIE HINES WAR RECORD

born 28 November 1918 in Doncaster

Called up for war time military service on16 October 1939 to Royal Engineers, army number 1184039. Joined A Company, 1st Motor Depot (believed to be based in Tyneside)

Posted to Aldershot to join 50th Motor Division (later to become 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division),   235 Field Park Company as Driver on 13 Dec 39

Posted to France as part of British Expeditionary Force, 23 January 1940 part of British 2 Corps, 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division

Evacuated from Dunkirk during Operation Dynamo on 1 June 1940, swimming out to waiting small boats.

Rejoined 235 Field Park Company on 29 June 1940,

Appointed Acting Lance Corporal 13 July 1940

In hospital 1st to 18th October 1940.

Attended 8th Corps Vehicle maintenance course 10 March 41 to31 March 41

Appointed Acting Corporal 15 April 41

Embarked for Egypt 21 May 41 as part of Middle East Forces

Disembarked Egypt 10 July 1941

Appointed Acting Sergeant 19 July 1941

Embarked 25 July 41 for Cyprus, disembarked 26 July 41

In hospital 2 Sept 41 to 30 September 41

Cyprus to Palestine Jan 42

Palestine to Syria 21 Jan 42

From Syria to Egypt 14 Feb 42

Libya, captured 28 May 42, posted as missing in Western Desert 30 May 42

Confirmed PoW on 30 May 42, in Italian hands

Held Italy, Campo PG 65 at Gravina near Bari (holding camp) then PG 53 near Sforzacosta on east coast

Transferred to Germany by train on 20 Aug 43 to Stalag IVB 50 km north of Dresden, Germany, for 3 weeks, PoW number 221441

Transferred to Stalag VIIIB (later called 344) in Lamsdorf, Poland (then Silesia) on 9 August 43

Transferred to Working Party E769, Heydebreck, Poland (IG Farben chemical plant, Blechammer south) on 23 Sep 44

Commenced ‘Long March’ from E769 on 22 Jan 45, through Poland, Czechoslovakia and south west Germany

Arrived at Stalag XIIID, Nuremburg on 28 March 45

Left Stalag XIIID on 2 April 45 marching south from Nuremburg

Liberated by Americans 25 April 45 at Beitenfeld

Car given by Americans on 27 April 45. Drove north through Wurzberg, Frankfurt and Coblenz to Aachen on Dutch/Belgian border.

Transferred to Antwerp and Brussels on 30 April 45

Boarded Lancaster bomber in Brussels and arrived in UK  2 May 45

12 July 45 posted to 2 Div Transport Unit

Posted to 1 Batt RAOC

UK service from 2 May 45 and release leave 26 Jan 46.  Discharged 13 May 46

Into royal army reserves 14 May 46

MEDALS AND AWARDS

Africa Star Medal

Star Defence Medal

War Medal

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