Pte. Cyril "Mac" McCarthy
British Army Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regiment
from:St. Helens, Lancashire
My father Cyril McCarthy was born in St. Helens on 25th of Sept. 1919. He joined the Army around the start of WWII (along with three of his brothers), and was in Dunkirk shortly after. He and another soldier were separated from their unit after a battle and were hiding in a farmhouse. His buddy went out to search for food and was gone too long, my father went to the front door and the house was surrounded by Germans. He was captured and sent to Stalag XXB in Poland. He and 5 others escaped at some point, three were captured after three days, my father and the other two were captured after six days.
I have quite a few photos, correspondence and British paperwork relating to his time in the POW camp.
