Denby, C

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Corporal Carl Denby

Family/Last name:
Denby
Forename(s) and initial(s):
Carl
Date of birth:
3/1/1916
Nationality:
British
Service number:
6913094
Military Unit:
British Army, Rifle Brigade, 1st Battalion (Rifle Brig.)
Rank when captured:
Corporal
Place of capture:
Calais
Date of capture:
26/5/1940
POW number:
4869
Camp
Stalag XXID Posen, Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf / Stalag 344, Stalag XXIB Schubin
Working Party
E256 Zuckmantel
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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My father, Carl Denby was a prisoner of war from 1940 to 1945 and spent some time in the Lamsdorf camp. 

Regiment – 1st battalion, Rifle Brigade

Enlisted – 1933 (gave date of birth as 4/1/1913 although he was born Arthur Deering on 3/1/1916)

Captured – Calais 26/5/1940

 

POW camps

  1.       Sep 1940-May 1941 – Ampstall ? Poland. Worked in House Demolition
  1.       May 1941 – Jul 1941 – Stalag XXI D Posen, Poland. Worked on Land Reclamation
  1.       Aug 1941 – Mar 1945 – Stalag 344 Lamsdorf. Working Party E256 worked in Zuckmantel as labourer in a Jam Factory

 Cheryl Gardner

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