Dennis ,G A

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Private George Alexander Dennis

Family/Last name:
Dennis
Forename(s) and initial(s):
George Alexander
Date of birth:
23/4/1920
Nationality:
Australia
Service number:
QX1815
Military Unit:
Australian Army (2nd Australian Imperial Force), 2/1 Australian Ordnance Stores Company
Rank when captured:
Private
Date of capture:
1941
Camp
Stalag VIIIA Görlitz, Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf / Stalag 344
Data sources
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I have downloaded my father’s Royal Australian Army records and it appears that he was a POW interned in Stalag VIIA (13.11.1941) and Stalag VIIIB/344 (05.01.1944).

He has spoken of the long march to England before he was returned home to Australia. 

His name is George Alexander Dennis (DOB 23.04.1920).

If appropriate, you may wish to add his name to the list on your website.

Patricia Kowal

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You have recently added my father’s name (George Alexander Dennis) to the list of POW at Stalag VIIIB during WW2.

In my father’s service records there is a letter from the son of one of the other POW with my father. I am attempting to locate this person and will pass on the information you have given me.

Also two of my father’s grand-daughters used letters from my father to his mother as a basis for research for their final year of secondary school, one wrote a research document, one made a film. If these would be of interest to your website, let me know and I will ask them for permission to post them.

Recently my husband (his father was in the Polish Air Force repatriated and served in England) and I visited Krakow. We toured Schindler’s Factory Museum. I did not realise that my own father had been interned in Poland as well. I had always just thought he had been in Germany. Maybe we will return there one day.

I have recently ordered the DVD The Long March.

My father is currently in aged care and has developed a form of dementia in which he has delusions of persecution. I suspect a lot of bad memories from his POW time pervade these times. When I realise what he was going through when he was the age of his grand-children now, it is very chilling.

I thank you for the extra information. The internet is indeed a wonderful tool.

Patricia Kowal

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