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Faulkner

Posted: 11 Apr 2015 9:32AM GMT
Classification: Military
Hi,I have just come across this msg about Stalag VIII-B in what I thought was Germany,but this thread has it in Poland.My father was a PoW there according to his military records[New Zealand army] He was captured in Crete 1941.His name Pvt Sydney Leonard Faulkner,and was interred there at least until Jan.1944,would like to know anything about this camp as we never asked him about that time,which must have very traumatic for him and his comrades.So if anyone can enlighten me with info or photo's or such it would be much appreciated.
Thank you
Don Faulkner

Re: Faulkner

Posted: 11 Apr 2015 7:38PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 11 Apr 2015 9:40PM GMT
Surnames: Faulkner
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalag_VIII-B ... http://www.lamsdorf.com/

http://www.pegasusarchive.org/pow/cSt_8B.htm

Driver (Dvr.) 6640 S. L. Faulkner 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force
POW Number 21867 Camp Type Stalag http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalag

Camp Number 344 Camp Location Lamsdorf, Poland = the later name for Stalag VIII-B
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/%C5%81ambinowice,+Poland...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%81ambinowice

That would have been his final camp, he might have been in other camps prior to that.

He might not have been permanently housed in Stalag VIII-B/Stalag 344 because that camp was also the administrative control center for many sub facilities which were affiliated to that camp and if daily travel to POW work locations was impractical POW's would be housed at the workplace location.

Stalag VIII-B Lamsdorf was split up into three different camps in 1943, one camp was located at Sagen Stalag VIII-C a second was located at Teschen Stalag VIII-D and Stalag VIII-B remained in Lamsdorf and was renumbered as Stalag 344.

There was a separate camp at Lamsdorf for Soviet POW's

That was originally called Stalag 318 then it was renamed as Stalag VIII-F in 1941 and then in 1943 it was again renumbered as Stalag 344 but it came under the administrative control of Stalag VIII-B. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalag_VIII-F

http://www.cmjw.pl/www/index_en.php?id=muzeum

http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205018450

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwiyw7RbTQ8

https://www.youtube.com/user/StalagVIIIB

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