Fields, David Roy

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Sergeant David Roy Fields

Family/Last name:
Fields
Forename(s) and initial(s):
David Roy
Nationality:
British
Military Unit:
British Army, Essex Regiment
Rank when captured:
Sergeant
Place of capture:
Dieppe
Date of capture:
19/8/1942
Camp
Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf / Stalag 344, Oflag IVC Colditz
Data sources
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Subject: David Roy Fields– Dieppe POW

David Roy Fields (Tecumseh Road, Sandwich East, Windsor) was a Provost Sergeant in the Royal Regiment, wounded and captured in the Dieppe raid, originally listed as missing and then later discovered to be a POW. He was Uncle to Gerald Fields (who appears in your list) and they signed up together. He was in Lamsdorf, was set to work in Lingel’s shoe factory and was one of the builders of the escape tunnel that was discovered. After that incident and other conflicts, my grandfather was sent to Colditz where he worked as a nurse.

Below is as an extract from the Dieppe Blue Beach- Every Man Remembered project.

The long march of the Essex Scottish regiment, part 3: with a greater chance of escape, members of the Essex Scottish endure the hardships of German work camps.

As it was for their comrades at Lamsdorf, resistance was the name of the game for Gorman and Fields, and the two men worked as little as possible. They went so far as to engage in neglect, fraud and even sabotage of the products and machines. Whenever Gorman and Fields were manufacturing military boots, they would slit the heels as well as build tacks into the soles. Furthermore, when Gorman was assigned to the cutting machine, he purposefully destroyed all six of the workshop’s cutting blades, which had to be specially ordered from Sweden. At their work camp, the men had built a formidable escape tunnel However, this was discovered when a guard and a German Shepherd fell into the deep hole. The angry dog attacked the guard while in the hole, which was soon filled with cement

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David Fields (Grandson)





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