Mailer, G

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George Mailer

Family/Last name:
Mailer
Forename(s) and initial(s):
George
Nationality:
British
Service:
British Army
Military Unit:
British Army, 51st Highland Division
Place of capture:
St Valery
Camp
Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf / Stalag 344
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My father was a prisoner at Stalag VIIIB.  Most of his time with work parties was shoveling coal. Not sure if it was onto or off railway wagons. I think it was off, so it might have been at a steel works. It was not a subject talked about by him or his fellow prisoners of war when they got back home.

He was taken prisoner at St Valery and a group of them from our home town stuck together from sign-up, training, through France and their time as POWs. They were all from Auchterarder, Scotland or surrounding area, and served with the 51st (Highland Division).

Other in the group were: William ( Bill ) Laurence, David Dow, Willie Murray

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