Thompson, S

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Private Snowdon Thompson

Family/Last name:
Thompson
Forename(s) and initial(s):
Snowdon
Nationality:
Zimbabwean (Rhodesian)
Service number:
4386729
Military Unit:
British Army, Green Howards, 6th Battalion (Green Howards)
Rank when captured:
Private
Date of capture:
24/5/1940
POW number:
161
Camp
Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf / Stalag 344, Stalag VB Villingen, Oflag XXIA Schokken, Stalag VID
Data sources
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I have just scanned your list of names and can add a further one. We believe that my late father-in-law was a prisoner there from 1941 to 1945. His details were:

Private Snowdon Thompson, Army No. 4386729, 6th Bn., The Green Howards.

Captured, with shoulder injury, by Panzers on 24th May 1940.

PoW No. 161. At Lamsdorf from early 1941 (via Stalags VB, VID (Dortmund) and XXIA (Schildberg)) to 1945. Initial correspondence gives Stalag VIIIB. The route of release is not known but his date of liberation is given as 18th May 1945.

Discharged 18th January 1946 and died in Manchester on 29th April 1966.

I hope that this is of use. My wife and I would be happy for any contact, either via the above e-mail address or to:

 Dr & Mrs R A Brierley

 

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