E3 Arbeitskommando Blechammer

Number:
E3
Location(s):
Blachownia Śląska 47-225 Kędzierzyn-Koźle Poland
Camp
Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf / Stalag 344

At E3 Blechammer (English: sheet metal hammer) there were 750 POWs employed on construction work. They worked a ten hour day including 3 Sundays out of four. There was a British doctor in the camp and 2 British dentists. When the ICRC visited in May 1942 they reported that many next-of-kin parcels had recently arrived there.  [From ‘The Prisoner of War’ September 1942]

The attached article is courtesy of Duane L. Bohnstedt who holds the copyright in it (2004)

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Last name First name Rank Nationality Unit Service number Camp POW number
Chamberlain Albert (Bert) Edward Private New Zealand New Zealand Army (2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force), 3rd Echelon (NZEF) 14242 Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf / Stalag 344, Stalag VIIA Moosburg, Stalag VIIB Memmingen 4532
Clements Walter Howard Sapper British British Army, Royal Engineers, 226th Field Company (RE) 2069710 Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf / Stalag 344, Stalag XIIID Nürnberg Langwasser 10879
Davidson George Ian Captain British British Army, Royal Army Medical Corps 97960 Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf / Stalag 344, Oflag VIIC Laufen 1113
Dean Sidney Private British British Army, Durham Light Infantry Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf / Stalag 344 13533
Jeffers John Lance Corporal British Army, Lancashire Fusiliers Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf / Stalag 344 13331
Montague Albert Edward Private British British Army, Royal Warwickshire Regiment 5105148 Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf / Stalag 344, Stalag IIID Berlin 13881
Pike William Alfred British Army, Royal Northumberland Fusiliers Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf / Stalag 344
Roberts Trevor British British Army, Royal Artillery, 2nd Searchlight Regiment RA 1492876 Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf / Stalag 344 15765
Rowley R R Private British British Army, Royal Warwickshire Regiment 5110356 Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf / Stalag 344 14244
Whiteside James Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf / Stalag 344
Whiteside William Patrick Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf / Stalag 344