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2Lt. Edgar Lewis Wiard
British Army 40th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment
from:Liverpool
2nd Lieutenant Lewis Wiard was in the 40th RTR and was captured on 22nd of July 1942 at Ruweisat Ridge.
His tank having been hit be a shell fired by Gunther Hahn, who was awarded the Iron Cross for his actions that day, the youngest to have been awarded that medal.
My father was taken to Italy where he was a prisoner until the surrender of Italy. He then escaped from the train that was carrying the prisoners to Germany but was recaptured on the Swiss border.
The Gestapo officer who interrogated him, at the end of the interrogation ordered a bottle of wine which he shared with my father before wishing him well and then sent him on to the the prison camp.
After a spell in that camp he was the transferred to Oflag 79.
Gunter Hahn was the guest of honour at one of the 40th RTR annual reunion dinners!