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Pte. Firth Clarke
British Army West Yorkshire Regiment
from:Brighouse, Yorkshire
Pte. Firth Clarke was captured early in the war and held prisoner through to the end. He was held in Stalag XXB. He rarely spoke of his time there, but on occasions told of stealing sugar hidden in a drum after a concert and getting German guards to help lift it as it was too heavy, of having shrapnel removed from his leg/ankle by German doctors, of walking home through Poland and refusing to remove his boots in case he was never able to get them back on. He was fond of boxing and gambling.
This second picture is of Firth at Stalag XXb (he did spend a short while in XXA before being moved to XXB)
Firth after the war (sadly he died in 1960) – he had had time to recover from the weight loss caused by walking home through Poland, so I guess the picture is about 1947/8?
If anyone recognises him, I would love to get in touch and find out more.
