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SSgt. Geoffrey Swanborough
British Army Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
My father Geoffrey Swanborough was a prisoner at Stalag 383 during the war. Captured at Crete he attempted to escape three times. He told of getting their Red Cross cigarettes, something their captors where short of, and making the German officers salute them in return for a cigarette