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220483Sydney Bonner
British Army Royal Artillery
from:94 Daneville Road, Liverpool
My father, Sydney Bonner, was taken prisoner in France at about the time of the Dunkirk evacuation and was a prisoner at Stalag XXb. His prison tattoo number was 7179. Early in 1945 he, together with thousands of others, set off on the Death March across Poland and Germany. He and the survivors of his party were met by Americans in April 1945 and was placed in what was, by then, a liberated concentration camp whilst awaiting repatriation to the U.K.I am trying to trace his journey and specifically the exact position and name of the concentration camp that had been liberated by the U.S. Given that he had met Americans, I am assuming that he was liberated in central Germany rather than in the north. With the help of my mother, I am putting together an account of my father's experiences and would be grateful if anyone could shed some light on on the last few weeks/months of his time as POW.
If anyone can put any detail to the route taken by POWs from Stalag XXb to a camp newly liberated by American troups I would be most grateful. Once I have all the details to complete the account of my father's experiences, I can post it on the XXb section of the Wartime Memories Project.
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