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Pte James Preston Mallory
British Army Sherwood Foresters Regiment
My Uncle James Preston Mallory was a prisoner in the Stalag VII-B camp n/o 344 in Lamsdorf Poland, formally known as Lambinowice.
He served in the Sherwood Foresters Regiment from 1939 – 1945, after the War in 1945 he subsequently joined ‘Commission Control’.
I was told that he escaped from the camp and was recaptured and duly returned to the camp, he also took part in the March from Poland to Germany.
I have been told that during the infamous 'long march' from Poland to Germany he and his friends used to take potatoes from nearby fields and boil them up quickly to sustain them on the journey.
In order to preserve the soles on his boots he strapped pieces of wood to his soles and due to this ingenuity when he arrived in Germany his soles were nearly unworn.
If anyone remembers or even knew him I would be very grateful to know.