228404 Gunner Garfield Jenkins British Army 5th Btn. South Wales Borderers My father, Garfield Jenkins, was captured after the Battle of Crete and sent to Stalag 8B. He told me of one successful escape from a camp in Poland. He used a ladder which he had been given to clean windows and jumped the wall. My dad was 18 at the beginning of the war. He stayed with a Polish family for two months hiding out with someone else - an Australian named Macomack. When he and his companion were liberated by the American they stole an SS car and drove to France.
In the Stalag the POWs were in working parties and when he was in a mining party he threw a girder onto the conveyor belt in order to stop the work because the Australians were not used to mining and were being picked on. But somebody else got the blame and had a right beating. They did find out it was father in the end and he was battered him too.
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