Add Information to Record of a Person who served during the Second World War on The Wartime Memories Project Website

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Pte. Norman Henry "Benny" Goodman

British Army Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

from:East Ham, London

Norman Goodman joined up in October 1939 at 20 years of age and was captured on his birthday, 21st of May 1940 at Albert in Belgium. He was incarcerated in Stalag 20b at Marienburg in East Prussia until the death march as the Russians approached. He survived and weighed just 7 stones when he was released by the Americans in a Hamburg railway siding after the German guards quietly undid the trucks in the night. It was 21st May, his birthday, 1945. Norman died at the age of 72 in 1990.



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