Freeman, S

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Rifleman Samuel Freeman

Family/Last name:
Freeman
Forename(s) and initial(s):
Samuel
Nationality:
Irish
Service number:
3247116
Military Unit:
British Army, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
Rank when captured:
Rifleman
Place of capture:
France
Date of capture:
30/5/1940
POW number:
12596
Camp
Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf / Stalag 344
Data sources
The National Archives (UK)Other Sources (Relative Report)
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 Rfn Samuel Freeman (Stalag VIIIB)

 

My late grandfather Samuel Freeman was in the  Cameronians. He was shot three times and captured on 30th May 1940 while defending the evacuation at Dunkirk. After treatment by German doctors he was taken to Stalag VIIIB in Poland where he remained until the end of the war. I was told by my family that they were liberated by Russian females in tanks?? My grandfather was a Belfast man and a Presbyterian, one of the reasons why he travelled to Perth in Scotland to join the Cameronians!!  

Samuel Freeman Mckeag.

 

 

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