261022 Pte. Kenneth Frederick Floodgate British Army Royal Norfolk Regiment from:Cecil Road, Croydon, Surrey Dad, Kenneth Floodgate was captured at St. Valery on 12th of June 1940. He was marched across the Low Countries, put on a barge on the Elbe. He and his fellow POWs had to scavenge food from fields as they walked, were spat on, had urine thrown at them by the women when passing through Germany, and had to squat by the side of the column when needing to toilet because if they ventured too far they would be shot as trying to escape. He spent time in Stalag XXI-B, XXI-D, 344 Lamsdorf, and Stalag 8b Lamsdorf, aged 19. Some teenage experience.
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