263211 Pte. James Alexander "Sonny" Forteath British Army Seaforth Highlanders from:3 Riverbank Terrace, Nairn, Scotland James Forteath is my father-in-law.
Not much is known, as he referred very little to his military service after being captured at St Valeryand that he was at Stalag XXa where he left before it was relieved and undertook the Death March back to Germany.
From there and to how he got home is still not known.
He told a few stories of the privations on his way back from Germany, what they ate, and how they slept, and that the German guards were suffering as much as they were most of time.
Once home he returned to his trade as a shoe-maker with his original employer. He retired and died in 1980.
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