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Pte. Kenneth Hancock
British Army 2nd Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment
from:Meir, Stoke on Trent
Kenneth Hancock enlisted aged 18 in 1943. Fought at Battle of Arnhem in B Company, 2nd South Staffords under Major Cain. He was taken POW at Oosterbeke in September 1944 and transported to Stalag XIIA Limburg, as POW No. 93200, initially before being transferred to Stalag VIIIC at Sagen, Poland. As a private he worked as Arbeitskommando in a sugarbeet factory and a coke plant. He then took part in a death march westwards being liberated near Munich in April 1945. He always felt he was lucky to have survived the depravations and had many stories to tell. After 9 months home leave he was transferred to the Royal Artillery Army Reserve until demob late 1946.
He attended the 10th Commemoration of the Battle of Arnhem in 1954 and died in 1995 having visited the 50th Commemoration the year before. I shall be visiting Arnhem in September 2019 for the 75th Commemoration along with his three grandsons. We are all very proud of his wartime service.
