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Private Thomas Hastings

Family/Last name:
Hastings
Forename(s) and initial(s):
Thomas
Place of birth:
East KIlbride, Scotland
Date of birth:
12/5/1907
Nationality:
British
Service number:
5438503
Military Unit:
British Army, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
Rank when captured:
Private
Place of capture:
Tobruk, North Africa
POW number:
220943
Camp
PG 53 Sforzacosta, Macerata, Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf / Stalag 344
Died while POW:
Yes
Data sources
The National Archives (UK)Other Sources (Relative’s report)
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Information provided by Peter Hastings

I have been trying for some time to find out what really happened to my father through various channels. None seem to match the final accepted explanation by my mother that he was, after spending most of the war in Italian and in Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf – Poland, finally killed by an Allied bomber air raid in Hamburg at the closing stages of WWII. I don’t understand why Hamburg comes into the equation, but it might be true as my father was an engineer in civil life and a colleague or fellow prisoner supposedly visited my mother after the war claiming that he had witnessed the bombing raid which had claimed his life.

I am listing what scant details that I have, which may help paint a clearer picture as to what might have happened now that I have discovered your address.

Private Thomas Hastings – 5438503
Scottish/British Army
Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry
Captured approx – 1940/41 North Africa (by Italians)
POW Camp – CC53 Sector II – PM 3300/Italy – then transferred to Stalag VIIIB – Lamsdorf Poland

Grave E35 at Auschwitz (listed by Imperial War Graves Commission) appears in a brochure sent to my mother along with commemoration scroll, consolation and Awards medals. His name appears on a War Memorial in El Alamein.

My grandchildren have shown interest in recent events and I would like to finalise my journal of ‘Boyhood Reflections’ with some details of their great grandfather.

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