241825 Pte. Raymond "Taffy" Williams British Army Gloucestershire Regiment from:Cwmcarn My father, Raymond Williams, was captured at Dunkirk and went through several camps, eventually interned at Torun. He escaped from the Great March and was overrun by the Red Army. He told me many stories:
There was no toilet paper so they used Rizlas.
He was sent out to work on Polish farms. On the first night they had to eat from a communal bowl. My father went to pick up his spoon but by the time he had done that the food had gone. He told me that it did not happen on the second night.
He always said that he thought he knew Sam Kydd, finding out later that they were at Torun together
He had an altercation with a guard who was escorting him to work and received a rifle butt to the head. He was court martialled and spent time in the prison within the camp.
In prison a guard they nicknamed "American Joe" because of his accented English, would come into the communal cell in the middle of the night. He would order the prisoners to throw their blankets in the middle of the floor and throw cold water over them, then turn the light out.
For all the bad treatment he received he was not anti-German.
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