236647 L/Cpl. William Milner British Army Green Howards from:Witton Park Farm, Bishop Auckland My uncle, Billy Milner, was a Lance Corporal in the Green Howards. He was captured at Tobruk and suffered greatly in Italian POW camps. Sick, malnourished and with no medical attention, he was left for dead but survived due to the intervention of the German Army!
On Italy's capitulation his prison camp in Italy was taken over by the Germans who gave him proper medical care. He was then transported to a POW camp in Germany - Hartmannsdorf, Stalag IV F88 in Saxony - where he had to do forced labour clearing up after allied bombing, possibly in Dresden. He never talked about his war experiences but there is no doubt they affected him for the rest of his life.
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