Add Information to Record of a Person who served during the Second World War on The Wartime Memories Project Website

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Spr. James McGinlay

British Army Royal Engineers

from:Ferrygate Farm Cottages, North Berwick

James McGinley was captured in Greece during the battle of Greece and later transferred to Stalag XV111A. He was put to work in the village of Lodersdorf in Austria as a farm labourer for the Holtzmann and Karner families.

James contracted Rheumatic Fever and was near to death when he was handed over to the British Red Cross in the early part of 1945. He recovered and lived until 1981.



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