Robert Martinson

Family/Last name:
Martinson
Forename(s) and initial(s):
Robert
Date of birth:
1915
Nationality:
Place of capture:
Hazebrouck
Date of capture:
5/1940
POW number:
653
Camp
Working Party
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Robert Martinson

From: Lynn Swidenbank 
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 at 10:02
My father was Robert Martinson
Prisoner no 653
He was in Stalag VIIIB /E200
He was in the Somerset Light Infantry
He was captured in Hazebrouck May 1940 near an orphanage (I have picture)
He was born in 1915 and died 2002
He grew up in Wealdstone Middlesex
I have pics of football matches and a show put on in at Christmas 1941 called “The Ghost of Jerry Bundler” All names of cast on the back!
Not sure how he got back to UK but was demobbed in Devizes Wilts where he met my Mum and they married in Devizes in 1946.

Kind Regards
Lynn Swidenbank (nee Martinson)

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