Gibbins, W T

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Private William Thomas Gibbins

Family/Last name:
Gibbins
Forename(s) and initial(s):
William Thomas
Place of birth:
Snodland, Kent
Date of birth:
10/5/1920
Nationality:
British
Service number:
4354116
Military Unit:
British Army, Royal Army Medical Corps
Rank when captured:
Private
Place of capture:
Dunkirk
Date of capture:
1940
POW number:
12324
Camp
Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf / Stalag 344
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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From: IAN LEE 

Subject: Re: William Thomas Gibbins

My father William Thomas Gibbins was a nursing orderly, left behind after the evacuations of Dunkirk in 1940 and was repatriated in 1943.

He then spent the rest of the war as the driver for the commandant at Dover castle.

He also said that at one time the camp interpreter was Leonard Sachs, the compère of the old BBC programme “The Good Old Days”!

 

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