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209064 L/Cpl Alistair Crawford Cameron MacRitchie British Army 153rd Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps from:"Leyhillock", Fassifern Road, Fort William, Scotland My father Alister MacRitchie was captured on the cliff top at St.Valery-en-Caux with the 51st Highland Division on the 12th of June 1940. He was marched, trucked, marched, trained, barged, and trained again (32 hours, 50 men to a truck, with no water) to Stalag XXA in Thorn in Poland where he worked on various work details in satellite camps. As he was "protected personnel", being a medical orderly, he was repatriated through Sweden in October 1943 as part of the first successful prisoner exchange with the Germans. My Dad (far right) with his two pals, Allan Cameron and Archie Day, "The Three Musketeers" or "The Three Must Get Beers", who were in his unit and were captured with him. This is a German photo of my Dad and others at one of the satellite camps. My Dad swears that the faces in the photographs had been touched up to make everyone look fatter and healthier than they really were. Alan Moore, who was a fellow POW of my father's at one of the camps, was recently featured on The Antiques Roadshow, Remembrance Day Special recounting the story of the radio that was smuggled in and operated in the camp (he still has the radio). My Dad's story, transcribed from his own handwritten notes and POW diaries, is recounted in "Chrismas in the Lager - Worse than a Sunday" available from www.blurb.com. The following are fellow POWs with their POW numbers whom he listed in his diary: Cameron, A. 18476 McPherson 18536 MacRitchie, A 18702 Chapman 17238 Bridges, A. 50131 Hawley 18502 Drake, D. 50130 Elliott, A. 13785 Case, G. 50136 Bynes 18313 Lait, W. 15225 Tucker Young, G. 16995 McKenzie 11244 IN HOSPITAL Moran, W. 18262 McKenzie 16904 Smith, J. 18171 Underwood Henry, A. 18408 Small Kennedy 18185 McFarlane Castle, N. 18254 Woods 17244 Steven, C. 18545 Borne 18272 Ross, T. 15149 Firth 17074 Smith, A.V. 15230 Masters McQueen 18387 Please type your message:      We recommend you copy the text about this item and keep a copy on your own computer before pressing submit. Your Name:             Email Address:       @ **Please type the first part our your email in the first box (eg. john.smith) the @ sign is added automaticallly, please type the second part in the second box (eg. gmail.com). Do not enter your full email in each box or add an @ sign or random spaces.**