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

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Pte. Donald McNamee

British Army 1st Btn. Black Watch

from:Rochdale, Lancashire

Donald McNamee was originally conscripted to Lancashire Fusiliers in 1944 but subsequently transferred to 1st Battalion, Black Watch, prior to seeing active service in the Ardennes, and then into Germany, including Hartz Mountains area and Hanover.

At the end of the War Dad spent time as a prison guard at the former Sandbostel Concentration Camp which was being used to detain captured German SS soldiers. The Captive Heart film starring Michael Redgrave, Jack Warner and other well known British actors of the period was filmed at the camp, and Dad along with many of his comrades was used as extras.



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