Hope, R A

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Ronald Arthur Hope

Family/Last name:
Hope
Forename(s) and initial(s):
Ronald Arthur
Date of birth:
23/2/1919
Military Unit:
British Army, Sherwood Foresters
Place of capture:
Dunkirk
Date of capture:
1940
Camp
Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf / Stalag 344
Data sources
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Information provided by Lynne Martin

My dad was captured at Dunkirk and was then a prisoner at Stalag VIIIB. He never really talked about it, but I believe that he was put into the mines in Poland, mining coal for the Germans, as he had been a miner at home in Derbyshire.

His name was Ronald Arthur Hope, of the Sherwood Foresters regiment. His DOB was 23/02/1919 and he passed away on 13/12/1986. I was the apple of his eye, and I adored him.

The only adverse effect of being a POW was that as a child I longed to go on holiday to Butlins at Skegness, but we never did, Mum said it reminded Dad of being a prisoner!!!

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