241214 L/Cpl. Thomas Reginald Guttridge British Army 1st Battalion Rifle Brigade from:Dulwich, London I persuaded my father Tom Guttridge to write a detailed account of his war memories. These have been published as a book Behind the Wire: Everyday Life as a PoW and also includes pre-war army memories and many of the photographs that my father brought home from the war including pictures of his seven pre-war years in the Rifle Brigade, the battle wreckage at Calais in 1940 when he was captured, the journey to Poland and life in the three camps in which he was a PoW in Stalag VIII B and Delbruick mine shaft camp in Poland, 1940 to 1942 and Stalag 383 from 1942 to 1945.
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