McKinney, Ronald Jack
Private Ronald Jack McKinney
From Brian Cooper. 01.10.2024
Data source: WO 392/21, WO 416/239/80 and WO 208/3363.
McKinney was in 26th (Canterbury and Otago) Battalion of the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force.
Extra details: Reported at PG 57 Gruppignano, Udine, Italy.
Registered at Stalag XVIIIC aka Stalag 317; personalkarte says Stalag 317.
Arrived: 24.9.43 at Stalag VIIIA
Arrived: 4.11.43 at Stalag VIIIB
Work camps in Germany [as recorded on personalkarte]
4.11.43 E732 Reichsbahn heubauamt. [Railway haymaking office.]
19.1.44 E535 Milowice.
Escaped 13.9.44 with 7814 Pte. Wilfred Samuel Henry Gilmour, 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force. 19.9.44 met Partisan forces in Slovakia. Evacuated by air to Bari, Italy.
Notes:
1. E732 more generally recorded at another location in the Kattowitz area.
McKinney was interrogated on 8th Oct 1944. Read the interrogation report.
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