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238268 Wadyslaw Thomas Trela Polish Army 24th Field Artillery Regiment I was amazed to find your website at a time when I have been asking my Australian mother for some details of my late Polish Father and his war history. His name was Wadyslaw Thomas Trela and he was born in Jaslany Poland. He joined the Army Cadets, 18th Sept 1939. He was a prisoner of War in Stalag 12a. The name of his regiment was 24 field artillery Polish Army Garostour(?). Mum is getting older and some of my dads details are fading a little and I want to research his history more thoroughly. If anyone has any information on the camp and its Polish prisoners I would appreciate it. When he was very ill and dying he used to liken the sound of the clanging bedpans in the rooms next to him to the Russian artillery liberating them. Was that his sense of humour or were they all liberated by the Russians. See I know nothing of his history. His entire family were wiped out and I have never been able to connect with my paternal history. I am becoming more and more interested. My Dad talked of an escape also but I don't know where from? He was shot also and had a nasty scar behind his ear where the bullet lodged and saved his life. Did the prisoners of War from Stalag 12a have something to do with the trials at Nuremburg?
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