Private D Patton

Family/Last name:
Patton
Forename(s) and initial(s):
D
Nationality:
Rank when captured:
POW number:
7776
Camp
Working Party
Data sources
Other Sources (Relative's report)

My Dad was captured at Saint-Valéry-en-Caux, on 12th June 1940 with the rest of the 51st.

From the little he told us, it would appear that he would volunteer for farm labour camps etc where they could get a few vegetables to eat. He was pretty fluent in German and I remember him singing ‘Silent Night’ in German to us when we were wee boys at Xmas. I think he helped out as a translator as well. He ended up on the ‘Long March’ and remembers running into American troops.

Name D. Patton

Rank Private

Regiment The Queen’S Own Cameron Highlanders

Camp No. BAB 20

Prisoner of War No. 7776

Record Office Infantry Record Office, Perth

Camp Type Miscellaneous Establishments

Camp Location Detachment E794 Stalag 344 (Formerly Bau Und Arbeits Battalion 20)

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Dave Patton

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