256324 Pte. Horace Wilfred "Yorkie" Clayton British Army York and Lancs from:Snaith Horace Clayton was a regular in the Army when the war broke out. He trained in France and was sent to Norway where he was captured and became a prisoner in 1940.
He worked mainly on farms and became friendly with the Polish family he worked with. He used to escape through a hole in the fence to steal veg and any other food he could boil up for his hut mates. He was hit on the side of the head by a guard for not bringing the hut to attention and had a cauliflower ear for the rest of his life.
He was on the long march in Feb 1945 when the guards took them out of the camp away from Russian and American troops. He was liberated by the Americans weighing only 6 stone and spent a number of weeks in hospital with a severely infected neck.
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