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Pte. Edwin "Peter" Metcalfe
British Army 1st Btn. Border Regiment
from:North Frodingham, Yorkshire
My grandfather Edwin Metcalfe was a member of the 1st Airborne Parachute Regiment. He was injured whilst parachuting into Arnhem during operation 'Market Garden'. On the 22nd September 1944, whilst being attended to at a medical station, it was captured by the Germans and he was sent to a POW camp. Initially he went to Dortmund and then to Stalag X1-B and finally to Ulzen. As the Allies approached the camp the Germans tried to move approximately 500 prisoners away from the camp. It was during this that my grandfather and three of his colleagues made their escape.
