Coulling, J A E

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Company Quartermaster Sergeant John Albert Edward Coulling

Family/Last name:
Coulling
Forename(s) and initial(s):
John Albert Edward
Place of birth:
Peckham, London
Date of birth:
29/6/1910
Nationality:
British
Service number:
6089836
Military Unit:
British Army, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)
Rank when captured:
Company Quartermaster Sergeant
Place of capture:
Dunkirk, France
Date of capture:
1940
POW number:
17701
Camp
Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf / Stalag 344, Stalag VIIIA Görlitz
Data sources
The National Archives (UK)Other Sources (Relative's Report + WO416 records transcribed by and held at the UK National Archives. Data processed and prepared by Rick Catt and Brian Cooper)
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Monday, June 9, 2014 

I have recently started researching documents left by my Father, John Albert Edward Coulling of the Queens Regiment.

J.A.E. COULLING 2/6 BN THE QUEENS ROYAL REGIMENT C/SGT CQMS 6089836 

He was taken prisoner at Dunkirk and marched across Europe and ended in a POW Camp in Lamsdorf.  The Journey started on the 12 June and ended on the 16 July.  He wrote notes in his book regarding this journey, but they are very hard to read. There are names which I presume are either members of his regiment or POWs like himself who he befriended in the camp.

Details I have are as follows:

STALAG VIIIB 01.10.40 NO 17701 LAMSDORF GERMANY 

AU STALAG VIIIB 1941 

GEPRUFT POLAND 

STALAG VIIIA 05.11.44 E14805 

I have been looking on your site and it would appear that dad was one of the lucky ones as he met up with the Americans.

I have been trying to plot the route he took across Europe, mostly marching, but later by barge and train.  He comments on the weather, that he sold his watch, sent letter, had hair cut etc.  Do you have web address for an old map as I believe some of the names may now have been changed of towns he walked from and to.

There is a photo with the right number of men, and I am assuming that these names relate to that photo which was taken in the camp.

Dad never spoke much about the War, so I have no explanation for some of the comments made in fact these documents only emerged when Dad died, and we were going through his things.

 

Anne Gern-Gross (Nee Coulling) (daughter)

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