225860 John Darbyshire British Army East Lancashire Regiment from:Up Holland, Wigan, Lancashire My late father, John Darbyshire, was a prisoner of war in Stalag 8a in Gorlitz. He swapped identities with a Corporal Trenfield and wrote to my mother under this assumed identity. He managed to escape and, after being helped along the way by several kind people, he eventually landed at Speke airport.
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