237392 L/Cpl. Eric Gordon Maynard British Army Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment from:Westerham, Kent Eric Maynard was captured by the Germans at Dunkirk, having been left behind with a small group of men, charged with the task of blowing up bridges. A Panzer division overran his group and they were taken across Europe to a POW camp in Poland, where he spent four years. They were finally liberated from the camp when the German guards abandoned it, caught in the corridor between the Russians advancing from the East and the Americans from the West. Eric made his way on foot across Europe before eventually returning to England, joining the Signals Corp in Yorkshire.
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