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230631L/Cpl. Charles Arthur Schofield
British Army Loyal (North Lancashire) Regiment
from:Lumb, Rossendale, Lancs
Charles Schofield was a POW at Stalag VIIIC, Konin, Zaganski, in Poland. His POW number was 86946. I think he was captured in 1942. He survived and returned home to Lumb, Rossendale, Lancashire where he married and had a son. He suffered from ill health and died in September 1970, at the age of 47. He is buried in St Michael's C of E graveyard in Lumb. Charles was a Church Warden at St Michael's.Charles was the brother of my first cousin three times removed's husband and his son and I were born in the same month in the same year and went to the same schools together, we were good friends. He seldom talked about his experiences as a POW except that he once had an operation, without anesthetic, undertaken by a German army doctor. He was an active man until his final illness, who enjoyed hunting with dogs on the local moors, he kept a greyhound and a Jack Russell terrier. A fine, generous man, who died before his time.
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