230387 Archie Broadfoot British Army Highland Light Infantry My father, Archie Broadfoot, was in Stalag 8b/Lamsdorf (344) from 1940 to 1945. Although he wore the Black Watch uniform he was actually in the Highland Light Infantry/Glasgow Rangers. The only information I have been able to find is that the site is now a museum. My father was assigned to work down the mines, for which he suffered. In 1944, because of ill health, he was assigned to "light duties" in a mill where they made furniture and he had to cut down trees and plane them. He considered himself to be one of the lucky ones, as there was a lot of suffering and poor conditions, so his philosophy was better out of camp. He remembered some rather rough train journeys and a walk to the camp. At the end he was repatriated by the Americans in a Czech village.
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