204952 Cpl. George Edward Cantelo British Army Reconnaissance Royal Armoured Corps from:Fulham, London I have no recall of knowing or seeing my father, Corporal George Edward Cantelo, until the age of five when he returned home to Fulham, London, with two New Zealand compatriots. He rarely if ever confided in me or with his subsequent offspring concerning his activities during the war. But it was no secret that he had been captured early in the war in action in North Africa. He spent some considerable time in Italian prisoner of war camps, where they were treated well but with starvation diets. My impression is that when it came time for the Italians to capitulate, the Germans shifted his location to German camps, and indeed the British Army prisoners of war list for 1939-1945 shows him as having been domiciled in Stalag 357, Oerbke, Lower Saxony, Germany. Sadly he is now deceased. Is it possible that anyone else reading this brief account might have known him or shared in his experiences at that particular Stalag?
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