Pte. John Richard Craig
British Army
from:London
Ron Gilkes, T.Q. Palmer, J.R. Craig, Ken Brown, A. Godfrey, W.A. Gibson, N. Scudder, W. Cope, G. Nicholson, F. Wright, George T. Brown, Walter Vasey (first on the right).
Terry Vassey submitted this photo which includes my father John Craig. My Dad died in 1972, I was 13, but he told me some stories of being a POW. He told me about the long march and how he and his mate Ken tried several unsuccessful escapes. On one escape, Ken's heel of his boot was shot off! He also told me about the hunger and the dysentery and how they would go around the back of the kitchens and scoop up the fat in the vats, even eating raw potato peelings. My mother told me that shortly after the war when they got married, he would wake up every night after a nightmare shouting in German.
Can anyone give me any information on my father? I would be grateful for absolutely anything.
