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Pte. John Michael Machuk
Canadian Army Queens Own Cameron Highlanders
from:Gretna, Manitoba
My father, John Machuk, was captured at Dieppe, August 19, 1942. He was interned at Stalag VIIIB from 1942 to 1943. He was later sent to Stettin. He and his brother Tony were in the same regiment but his brother returned to England and later fought in Italy. John tells the story of escaping with his friend George. The were in a small town at night when they heard someone coming so the jumped over a hedge and into a ditch. It happens that the sound they heard was a German soldier and his girlfriend. He stopped and urinated over the hedge onto my father. Being very dark, his friend George was holding onto dad's legs. Dad could feel him shaking as he was laughing. This happened when he was only 22 years old.
