Bond, S A

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Stanley Arthur Bond

Family/Last name:
Bond
Forename(s) and initial(s):
Stanley Arthur
Place of birth:
Woodford, London
Date of birth:
8/1/1914
Nationality:
British
Service number:
7759
Military Unit:
New Zealand Army (2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force), 4 Field Hygiene Section (NZ)
Place of capture:
Crete
Date of capture:
1/6/1941
POW number:
24100
Camp
Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf / Stalag 344
Data sources
The National Archives (UK), Archives New ZealandOther Sources (The National Archives (UK)Other Sources (WO416 records transcribed by and held at the UK National Archives. Data processed and prepared by Rick Catt and Brian Cooper) + Relative's report)
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From: Robyn Wood, Victoria, Australia.
Date: 24 June 2017

I am currently transcribing my father’s manuscript onto the computer with the view to writing his biography. His name is Stanley Arthur Bond and was a medic in Stalag VIIIB/344 for four years after being captured on Crete.

At one stage he spent 6 months in a work camp near Hindenburg (?), one of only two Gentiles in a group of Palestinian Jews who had also been captured on Crete.

He mentions a man Simon Brachner who together with four other men blew up a high-level viaduct, carrying the main rail service from Berlin to the Russian and Ukraine fronts had only recently been completed and heavy troop reinforcements and supply trains were now coming through on regular schedules. The new viaduct straddled the old complex of local and industrial lines serving the Ober Silesian area, now regarded as the main supply base for East Germany because the Ruhr in West Germany had been taken such a terrific battering from Allied bombing in recent weeks.

I hope to visit Lambinowice next year to undertake further research. I also have several photographs which may be of interest to the Museum together with the manuscript which I would bring with me.

 

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