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Thomas Wylie Johnston
British Army 7th Btn. Royal Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Ashington
My grandfather Thomas ohnston was taken prisoner on his 35th birthday on 12th June 1940 at St Valery en Caux. He was marched across France and Belgium and initially sent to PoW Camp XX-B in Marienburg, Poland where he worked on neighbouring farms. He remained a prisoner for 5 years in various camps including Stalag XX-A Thorn, Poland and Stalag VIII-B Lamsdorf. In February 1945 he was sent by train from Lamsdorff to Augsburg then Menningen in the west where he was liberated by the Americans. All of this is recorded in his war diary which I still have. He returned to Ashington and his mining background later working as a caretaker in Ashington drill hall. He died in 1969.