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Pte. Sidney Thomas Stratton
New Zealand 2nd Expeditionary Force B Company 20th Battalion
from:Dannevirke, New Zealand
Enlisted 13 July 1940,
entered camp 3 October 1940.
Embarked from New Zealand 1 February 1941,
disembarked Egypt 16 March 1941.
Posted to 20th Battalion 14 June 1941.
Involved in Operation Crusader November 1941, wounded and captured (piece of German mortar bomb removed 1990)
Shipped from Benghazi on POW ship `Jason', torpedoed HMS Porpoise 8 December 1941.
POW in Greece then Italy at various camps
Tuturano,
Gravina,
Montelupone,
Campotosto.
Released when Italy capitulated but recaptured by the Germans and taken by train to Germany.
Around April 1944 was in
Stalag 4B Germany POW #267389.