Gauld, D W

Douglas William Gauld

Family/Last name:
Gauld
Forename(s) and initial(s):
Douglas William
Nationality:
British
Place of capture:
Dunkirk
Date of capture:
1940
POW number:
13618
Camp
Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf / Stalag 344
Working Party
E432
Data sources
Other Sources (Relative's Report)
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I’ve just received letters/photos from my father’s estate, Douglas William Gauld, when he was a POW in Stalag VIIIB. I don’t have a lot of details, but I know he was the camp interpreter at the time (1940 to 1945). I’ve looked over the list of names and I don’t see his name mentioned, so you may want to include him on your list. 

I don’t have a lot of details, but I think he was part of the rear-guard, at Dunkirk, when they were over run by the Germans. He was a Scot so may have been part of a Scottish regiment (not sure). At the end of the war the German guards abandoned them, and a small group left the camp and went into the forests where they were met by Russian soldiers, who were about to shoot them (they weren’t in uniform), but my father knew only one Russian word, Tavarich, which saved them. He was demobbed at a camp just outside Cheltenham, Glos (Teddington I think) where he married a local girl (my mum) and settled there until his death in 1970.

I’ve included a scan of one of his letters, for your archives.

 

 Doug Gauld

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