239765 Herbert Henry Pratchett British Army Essex Regiment from:Edmonton I have hardly any information about my uncle Bert Pratchett's war service. I was always told that he was captured in North Africa and taken prisoner by the Italians. He returned from the war with TB and was in hospital for over a year and, although severely weakened by this, lived until he was 78. He married and had a son and another adopted son.
I recently discovered that he had been in Altengrabow, Saxony-Anhalt Stalag X1 prisoner number 1782 but I have no detail about how he ended up there from North Africa. We have a small collection of bits from his time as prisoner - his dog tags, a small knife sharpened down to hardly anything, a plastic cross with the dates of his imprisonment scratched on it and some small metal plates with his camp number and the camp reference on them.
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