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Stalag 10b Prisoner of War Camp    PoW camp Stalag 10b was situated near Bremervorder in Germany.   22nd Jul 1941 Parcels If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. Those known to have been held in or employed at Stalag 10b Prisoner of War Camp during the Second World War 1939-1945. Andrews William E.. Archer Maurice. Sea. Dixon Thomas. Able.Sea. Elliott Dennis. Trooper Elliott Dennis Wiliam. Tpr. Jones Thomas. L.Tel. Lemonnier Bernard. Milosavljevi Miodrag. Moeremans . Pte. Radovich Velimir R.. Rouviere Louis Marius. Young Henry Hynd. Pte The names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed, please Add a Name to this List Records from Stalag 10b Prisoner of War Camp other sources. The Wartime Memories Project is the original WW1 and WW2 commemoration website. 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He was a Serbian from Yugoslavia, taken prisoner in Trstenik (Yu), taken to Kruševac(Yu) and then to Germany. The only info on his time as a POW comes from a Red Cross evidence. I am sending his photo, which has a following text translated from Serbian on the back side: A group of Wardens from the Course 4-18 June 1949 53 C.M.D. Training Wing Cadre Course No 9 Osnabrück. He is at the far right in the bottom row. What puzzles me is that I have a photo of his children, with the text saying that he received that photo as a POW. Photo was taken on September-10-1943, and he added in his own handwriting that he received it on November-26-1943 at Birkenau (which he misspelled as Brikenau). That photo has a censorship stamp, with the censor's ID number 78 and "geprüft" text, but unfortunately, the crucial information on the stamp is not visible - number of the camp after the word "Stalag". I see it as a mystery, since he was never supposed to be in Auschwitz/Birkenau. I am named after him. Miodrag Milosavljevic Add to this record. Sea. Maurice "Ginger" Archer SS Wendover My father, Maurice Archer (or Ginger as he was nicknamed, for his red hair) was 17 when he sailed out of Liverpool on 21st June 1940. His Merchant Navy ship, the SS Wendover, was bound for Bordeaux carrying coal on passage. France had just fallen to Germany, so orders were changed and the ship was diverted to Rio de Janeiro. On 12th July, my father celebrated his 18th birthday. On the 16th July, my father’s ship was captured at sea by a German raider. During the capture, a burly German officer turned to my father and told him "The war is over for you, son". But this was just the start of 4.5 years in captivity and in concentration camps where my father witnessed death, hunger, cold, and disease. He now tells his story: "On the 16th July 1940, I was on 4-8 watch when according to the 8-12 watch a ship flying Yugoslav colours had opened fire from the port quarter, killing the radio operator and setting fire to the bridge. The ship turned out to be a disguised German raider. During the one-way exchange of fire (the raider kept of range), Able Seaman George Smith was seriously injured and the third engineer, Mr. Gibson, and the steward, Mr. Gernardt, were killed. George Smith died later of his injuries. After four months aboard the raider, we were transferred to a prison ship. Conditions on the raider were passable, but the prison ship was deplorable. We landed in Bordeaux a few weeks later and were taken to the prison camp Caserne Colonial Bordeaux. This camp bordered on primitive in every sense of the word. Our first night there we had doors for beds. We weren't sorry to leave there in a cattle truck three days later, when we were taken to Drancy Prison in Paris. The less said about our stay at Drancy the better. The only good thing I remember about Drancy was the kindness of the French women who had nothing themselves, but nevertheless threw loaves of bread to us past the guards. Most of the prisoners, including myself, were sent from Drancy to concentration camps. After five days of normal transportation (i.e., in cattle trucks), we arrived at Bremervorde in northwestern Germany near Bremen, and were then marched several miles to Stalag X-B in Sandbostel, where we were greeted by the stink of death. I was held in Stalag X-B for two years, and I will never forget that smell – it lingered constantly. Many thousands of POWs died there. In early 1945, in the face of advancing British forces, the camp was evacuated, and we were marched to Marlag und Milag Nord, from where I was later repatriated. There have been times when I've thought about the few months of kindness and friendliness shown by Frau Wilmbrock and her family in the village of Kirch, where I and fellow Stalag X-B prisoner Jock Reid worked their farm. Little did I know, but back home I was considered missing and presumed dead. My name was and still is on the wall of remembrance in the Mission to Seaman in South Shields." Dorothy Duffield Add to this record. L.Tel. Thomas Jones HMS Express During WW2 my father, Thomas Jones was a leading telegrapher in the Royal Navy serving on HMS Express. He was involved in the evacuation at Dunkirk at the end of May 1940. On 31st of August 1940 HMS Express struck a mine and was badly damaged. My father was on board, he managed to swim through oil and the burning sea to a life raft. He was adrift for 3 days until eventually picked up by Germans. Many fellow sailors perished whilst on board the raft, he was quite sick as he had swallowed so much oil and he was suffering from exposure and lack of water. He was, thereafter, a prisoner of war and (according to his wartime log) in camps including Torun Podgorz, Bruss (Brusy) Sandbostel and later Westertimke (Marlag M) He had a difficult time in the camps but eventually in April 1945 was liberated and returned to the UK in May Glynis Mowat Add to this record. Able.Sea. Thomas "Snowy" Dixon My late father, Thomas Dixon, was captured at sea. We understand he was transferred to another ship before spending some time on the Admiral Scheer. We have a few letters he wrote home. He was landed in France and was initially held at Front Stalag 221 St Medard. The next letter we have is sent from Stalag XB 20th August 1941 whilst he was held at Marlag. We are not sure if this was Sandbostal or two other possible sites nearby as the camp was moved during his incarceration. We have a number of letters from this camp. We then have a letter from M-Stammlager Stalag VIIIB dated 19th August 1942 which seems to be Lamsdorf, and then some letters from December 1942 from Heydebreck through to December 1944. We believe after this he was forced marched with others back into Germany...but we have no records from there on in. His Prisoner of War number was 90870 Gavin Dixon Add to this record. Pte. Moeremans My father was a soldier in the Belgian infantry. He fought the complete Belgian campaign from 10th of May 1940 till the surrender of the Belgian army on 18th of May 1940. He was taken prisoner and send to Germany, held at Schleswig Holstein in Stalag 10 B. After a while the Germans put him in a work kommando and he had to work at a farm nearby. Belgian soldiers with a Flemish origin were liberated in 1941. The only souvenir I have got from that period is a money note for prisoners. Daniel Moeremans Add to this record. Louis Marius Rouviere My father Louis Rouviere was born on 21st July 1918 in Rochefort in the Gard. I have an ID tag which indicates that he was in Stalag XB, No. 7474 and a photo on the back of which is mentioned Stalag IVF with a number 10950. I got some information from the mayor's office in Rochefort in the Gard, which states that my father arrived on 19th May 1945 via Metz from Stalag IVF. I did not know my father who died on 18th May 1948, I was born a few months later. I would like to know what happened to him, I have no information. I would really like to know more. If anyone can help I would be grateful. Louis Rouviere Add to this record. William E. Andrews SS Duquesa My great grandfather, William E Andrews was captured in WWII. He was in the merchant navy, and his ship SS Duquesa was sunk by a German destroyer off the Murmansk coast (Russia). He was a POW in Stalag 10b until the end of the war. Simon Pintus Add to this record. Tpr. Dennis Wiliam Elliott 1st Battalion Royal Tank Regiment My Dad Dennis Elliott was eighteen when he was enlisted in the 1st Battalion, the Royal Tank Regiment. On 31 December 1944 he was blown out of his tank in Belgium with Cpl Frayne and Trooper N Fleetwood. He was taken prisoner and incarcerated in Stalag 10B from where he was liberated on 29 April 1945. Can anyone give me any information about him as he died very suddenly in 2011, and did not talk about his time in the war. I have found the above information from his service records. Janis Harris Add to this record. Velimir R. Radovich My father, Velimir R. Radovich was a Yugoslav (Serb) POW at Stalag X B from June 41 to April 45 Rade V. Radovich Add to this record. Bernard Lemonnier je suis étonnée de tomber toujours sur des site anglais?? Bon ! Mon père est resté jusqu'en 1945 au stalag 10b je viens de retrouver toute la correspondance entre ma mère et lui Je sais qu'il a été placé en 1943 dans une ferme Je voudrais retrouver dans quel endroit pour y retourner moi même Mon pere etait musicien et chanteur il y a fait des spectacles écrit des chansons sur les allemands Dans la ferme où il est resté il aimait ses chevaux J'ai plein de photos pouvez vous m'aider à retrouver cette ferme???Merci I am astonished to always fall on English sites! My father was held until 1945 in Stalag 10B, I have just rediscovered the correspondence between my mother and him, I know that it has to have been in 1943 in a farm I would want to rediscover in which place and make a visit. My father was a musician and singer and while there he performed songs. In the farm he liked working with the horses, I have a lot of photos, can anyone help me to locate this farm? Evelyne Montero Add to this record. Trooper Dennis Elliott 1st Battalion Wartime Memories of Dennis William Elliott 1939 – The War began on September 34th, which was at the end of the school summer holidays, but as my school had no Air Raid Shelters our school holidays were extended until they were built. After 4 weeks we returned to school for 1 hour each day to collect homework and to return the previous days lessons. It was getting close to Christmas before the Air Raid Shelters were all built and we were able to go back to school all day. During these first months of the war we had to get used to the black out, all houses, shops, offices and factories had to make sure that no lights could be seen after dark and there were no street lights, so on a foggy night it was very difficult to find your way around. 1940 – I left school during this year and started work at the Accounts Offices of the N.A.A.F.I. Although the Air Raid Sirens went quite often, only one raid was made on the barracks up the road one Saturday afternoon where Canadian soldiers were stationed. There was also a raid on a train at Tongham which was hit with ammunition on board. Quite a firework display at night. 1941 - With my friends I joined the Air Training Corp, with an idea of eventually to the R.A.F., during the next 2 years I got 3 flights in wartime aircraft. 1942 – All offices and factories had to protect their property from fire during Air Raids so the staff had to do what was called Fire Watching, all men over the age of 18 had to take their turn but when you were 16 years you could volunteer, for this you were paid 2/6 (12.5 p) which meant I could go to the cinema twice that week. 1943 – The services accepted volunteers from the age of 17.5 and you could choose which one to join but at 18 you were conscripted and you had no choice of service you joined. So with my friends we decided that driving a tank would be far better than anything else so we volunteered for the Royal Armoured Corps. A few weeks later we received our call up papers and travelled to Bovington Camp to start our training. 1944 – Soldiers at this time had to wait until they were 18.5 before being sent abroad so I was too young to take part in D-Day. It wasn’t until near the end of the year before I went to Ostend in Belgium and then onto Brussels. 1945 – In Belgium I joined the 1st Royal Tank Regiment and went onto Holland, after a few weeks on patrol we returned to Belgium and then back to Holland again to a village near Eindhoven, a few days later we crossed the Rhine. At the end of March I was in the lead tank advancing to Osnabruck when the tank was hit twice. Fortunately I was halfway out of the tank when the second shell hit so was blown out by the blast. At this point I was taken prisoner and sent to Stalag 10B, which was at a place called San Bostel, this is a few miles east of the German Naval Base at Bremerhaven in the far North of Germany. I was liberated by the Grenadiers Guards and flown to Brussels and from there in a Lancaster Bomber to R.A.F. Wing in Buckinghamshire; V.E. Day came the day after I got home. Janis Harris Add to this record. Pte Henry Hynd Young 8th Pioneer Btn Kings Own Royal Regiment My dad, Harry Young, died some years ago, but I only recently got sight of his war record. He was captured on 29 April 1940 at Amiens, France and was taken to Stalag XXA, prisoner no. 19412, on 21 July 1940 from a Dulag. He was transferred to Stalag XXB on 1 November 1940 and appears to have stayed there until repatriated. He arrived back in the UK on 19 May 1945. Would be interested to know how he would have spent his time and any photographs would be particularly welcome as he never spoke about his time as a POW apart from mentioning he went on a Death March. Ray Young Add to this record. Miodrag "Mija" Milosavljevi My grandfather, Miodrag Milosavljevi, (1911-1976) was a POW Number 110098 in Stalag X-B. He was a Serbian from Yugoslavia, taken prisoner in Trstenik (Yu), taken to Kruševac(Yu) and then to Germany. The only info on his time as a POW comes from a Red Cross evidence. I am sending his photo, which has a following text translated from Serbian on the back side: A group of Wardens from the Course 4-18 June 1949 53 C.M.D. Training Wing Cadre Course No 9 Osnabrück. He is at the far right in the bottom row. What puzzles me is that I have a photo of his children, with the text saying that he received that photo as a POW. Photo was taken on September-10-1943, and he added in his own handwriting that he received it on November-26-1943 at Birkenau (which he misspelled as Brikenau). That photo has a censorship stamp, with the censor's ID number 78 and "geprüft" text, but unfortunately, the crucial information on the stamp is not visible - number of the camp after the word "Stalag". I see it as a mystery, since he was never supposed to be in Auschwitz/Birkenau. I am named after him. Miodrag Milosavljevic Sea. Maurice "Ginger" Archer SS Wendover My father, Maurice Archer (or Ginger as he was nicknamed, for his red hair) was 17 when he sailed out of Liverpool on 21st June 1940. His Merchant Navy ship, the SS Wendover, was bound for Bordeaux carrying coal on passage. France had just fallen to Germany, so orders were changed and the ship was diverted to Rio de Janeiro. On 12th July, my father celebrated his 18th birthday. On the 16th July, my father’s ship was captured at sea by a German raider. During the capture, a burly German officer turned to my father and told him "The war is over for you, son". But this was just the start of 4.5 years in captivity and in concentration camps where my father witnessed death, hunger, cold, and disease. He now tells his story: "On the 16th July 1940, I was on 4-8 watch when according to the 8-12 watch a ship flying Yugoslav colours had opened fire from the port quarter, killing the radio operator and setting fire to the bridge. The ship turned out to be a disguised German raider. During the one-way exchange of fire (the raider kept of range), Able Seaman George Smith was seriously injured and the third engineer, Mr. Gibson, and the steward, Mr. Gernardt, were killed. George Smith died later of his injuries. After four months aboard the raider, we were transferred to a prison ship. Conditions on the raider were passable, but the prison ship was deplorable. We landed in Bordeaux a few weeks later and were taken to the prison camp Caserne Colonial Bordeaux. This camp bordered on primitive in every sense of the word. Our first night there we had doors for beds. We weren't sorry to leave there in a cattle truck three days later, when we were taken to Drancy Prison in Paris. The less said about our stay at Drancy the better. The only good thing I remember about Drancy was the kindness of the French women who had nothing themselves, but nevertheless threw loaves of bread to us past the guards. Most of the prisoners, including myself, were sent from Drancy to concentration camps. After five days of normal transportation (i.e., in cattle trucks), we arrived at Bremervorde in northwestern Germany near Bremen, and were then marched several miles to Stalag X-B in Sandbostel, where we were greeted by the stink of death. I was held in Stalag X-B for two years, and I will never forget that smell – it lingered constantly. Many thousands of POWs died there. In early 1945, in the face of advancing British forces, the camp was evacuated, and we were marched to Marlag und Milag Nord, from where I was later repatriated. There have been times when I've thought about the few months of kindness and friendliness shown by Frau Wilmbrock and her family in the village of Kirch, where I and fellow Stalag X-B prisoner Jock Reid worked their farm. Little did I know, but back home I was considered missing and presumed dead. My name was and still is on the wall of remembrance in the Mission to Seaman in South Shields." Dorothy Duffield L.Tel. Thomas Jones HMS Express During WW2 my father, Thomas Jones was a leading telegrapher in the Royal Navy serving on HMS Express. He was involved in the evacuation at Dunkirk at the end of May 1940. On 31st of August 1940 HMS Express struck a mine and was badly damaged. My father was on board, he managed to swim through oil and the burning sea to a life raft. He was adrift for 3 days until eventually picked up by Germans. Many fellow sailors perished whilst on board the raft, he was quite sick as he had swallowed so much oil and he was suffering from exposure and lack of water. He was, thereafter, a prisoner of war and (according to his wartime log) in camps including Torun Podgorz, Bruss (Brusy) Sandbostel and later Westertimke (Marlag M) He had a difficult time in the camps but eventually in April 1945 was liberated and returned to the UK in May Glynis Mowat Able.Sea. Thomas "Snowy" Dixon My late father, Thomas Dixon, was captured at sea. We understand he was transferred to another ship before spending some time on the Admiral Scheer. We have a few letters he wrote home. He was landed in France and was initially held at Front Stalag 221 St Medard. The next letter we have is sent from Stalag XB 20th August 1941 whilst he was held at Marlag. We are not sure if this was Sandbostal or two other possible sites nearby as the camp was moved during his incarceration. We have a number of letters from this camp. We then have a letter from M-Stammlager Stalag VIIIB dated 19th August 1942 which seems to be Lamsdorf, and then some letters from December 1942 from Heydebreck through to December 1944. We believe after this he was forced marched with others back into Germany...but we have no records from there on in. His Prisoner of War number was 90870 Gavin Dixon Pte. Moeremans My father was a soldier in the Belgian infantry. He fought the complete Belgian campaign from 10th of May 1940 till the surrender of the Belgian army on 18th of May 1940. He was taken prisoner and send to Germany, held at Schleswig Holstein in Stalag 10 B. After a while the Germans put him in a work kommando and he had to work at a farm nearby. Belgian soldiers with a Flemish origin were liberated in 1941. The only souvenir I have got from that period is a money note for prisoners. Daniel Moeremans Louis Marius Rouviere My father Louis Rouviere was born on 21st July 1918 in Rochefort in the Gard. I have an ID tag which indicates that he was in Stalag XB, No. 7474 and a photo on the back of which is mentioned Stalag IVF with a number 10950. I got some information from the mayor's office in Rochefort in the Gard, which states that my father arrived on 19th May 1945 via Metz from Stalag IVF. I did not know my father who died on 18th May 1948, I was born a few months later. I would like to know what happened to him, I have no information. I would really like to know more. If anyone can help I would be grateful. Louis Rouviere William E. Andrews SS Duquesa My great grandfather, William E Andrews was captured in WWII. He was in the merchant navy, and his ship SS Duquesa was sunk by a German destroyer off the Murmansk coast (Russia). He was a POW in Stalag 10b until the end of the war. Simon Pintus Tpr. Dennis Wiliam Elliott 1st Battalion Royal Tank Regiment My Dad Dennis Elliott was eighteen when he was enlisted in the 1st Battalion, the Royal Tank Regiment. On 31 December 1944 he was blown out of his tank in Belgium with Cpl Frayne and Trooper N Fleetwood. He was taken prisoner and incarcerated in Stalag 10B from where he was liberated on 29 April 1945. Can anyone give me any information about him as he died very suddenly in 2011, and did not talk about his time in the war. I have found the above information from his service records. Janis Harris Velimir R. Radovich My father, Velimir R. Radovich was a Yugoslav (Serb) POW at Stalag X B from June 41 to April 45 Rade V. Radovich Bernard Lemonnier je suis étonnée de tomber toujours sur des site anglais?? Bon ! Mon père est resté jusqu'en 1945 au stalag 10b je viens de retrouver toute la correspondance entre ma mère et lui Je sais qu'il a été placé en 1943 dans une ferme Je voudrais retrouver dans quel endroit pour y retourner moi même Mon pere etait musicien et chanteur il y a fait des spectacles écrit des chansons sur les allemands Dans la ferme où il est resté il aimait ses chevaux J'ai plein de photos pouvez vous m'aider à retrouver cette ferme???Merci I am astonished to always fall on English sites! My father was held until 1945 in Stalag 10B, I have just rediscovered the correspondence between my mother and him, I know that it has to have been in 1943 in a farm I would want to rediscover in which place and make a visit. My father was a musician and singer and while there he performed songs. In the farm he liked working with the horses, I have a lot of photos, can anyone help me to locate this farm? Evelyne Montero Trooper Dennis Elliott 1st Battalion Wartime Memories of Dennis William Elliott 1939 – The War began on September 34th, which was at the end of the school summer holidays, but as my school had no Air Raid Shelters our school holidays were extended until they were built. After 4 weeks we returned to school for 1 hour each day to collect homework and to return the previous days lessons. It was getting close to Christmas before the Air Raid Shelters were all built and we were able to go back to school all day. During these first months of the war we had to get used to the black out, all houses, shops, offices and factories had to make sure that no lights could be seen after dark and there were no street lights, so on a foggy night it was very difficult to find your way around. 1940 – I left school during this year and started work at the Accounts Offices of the N.A.A.F.I. Although the Air Raid Sirens went quite often, only one raid was made on the barracks up the road one Saturday afternoon where Canadian soldiers were stationed. There was also a raid on a train at Tongham which was hit with ammunition on board. Quite a firework display at night. 1941 - With my friends I joined the Air Training Corp, with an idea of eventually to the R.A.F., during the next 2 years I got 3 flights in wartime aircraft. 1942 – All offices and factories had to protect their property from fire during Air Raids so the staff had to do what was called Fire Watching, all men over the age of 18 had to take their turn but when you were 16 years you could volunteer, for this you were paid 2/6 (12.5 p) which meant I could go to the cinema twice that week. 1943 – The services accepted volunteers from the age of 17.5 and you could choose which one to join but at 18 you were conscripted and you had no choice of service you joined. So with my friends we decided that driving a tank would be far better than anything else so we volunteered for the Royal Armoured Corps. A few weeks later we received our call up papers and travelled to Bovington Camp to start our training. 1944 – Soldiers at this time had to wait until they were 18.5 before being sent abroad so I was too young to take part in D-Day. It wasn’t until near the end of the year before I went to Ostend in Belgium and then onto Brussels. 1945 – In Belgium I joined the 1st Royal Tank Regiment and went onto Holland, after a few weeks on patrol we returned to Belgium and then back to Holland again to a village near Eindhoven, a few days later we crossed the Rhine. At the end of March I was in the lead tank advancing to Osnabruck when the tank was hit twice. Fortunately I was halfway out of the tank when the second shell hit so was blown out by the blast. At this point I was taken prisoner and sent to Stalag 10B, which was at a place called San Bostel, this is a few miles east of the German Naval Base at Bremerhaven in the far North of Germany. I was liberated by the Grenadiers Guards and flown to Brussels and from there in a Lancaster Bomber to R.A.F. Wing in Buckinghamshire; V.E. Day came the day after I got home. Janis Harris Pte Henry Hynd Young 8th Pioneer Btn Kings Own Royal Regiment My dad, Harry Young, died some years ago, but I only recently got sight of his war record. He was captured on 29 April 1940 at Amiens, France and was taken to Stalag XXA, prisoner no. 19412, on 21 July 1940 from a Dulag. He was transferred to Stalag XXB on 1 November 1940 and appears to have stayed there until repatriated. He arrived back in the UK on 19 May 1945. Would be interested to know how he would have spent his time and any photographs would be particularly welcome as he never spoke about his time as a POW apart from mentioning he went on a Death March. Ray Young Recomended Reading. Available at discounted prices.

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