Parker, B W

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Basil Thomas Parker

Family/Last name:
Parker
Forename(s) and initial(s):
Basil Thomas
Nationality:
British
Military Unit:
British Army, Royal Armoured Corps
Date of capture:
4/1941
Camp
Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf / Stalag 344
Data sources
Contemporary Account/Diary
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Basil Thomas Parker (maybe known as Tom), served with the Royal Armoured Corps and was captured in Crete in April 1941. His comrades had to leave him after he was shot through the leg – he was then captured and taken to Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf. He told family members that he was liberated by Russian tank women in 1945 at the end of the war. He, understandably, wouldn’t speak much about his wartime experiences.

He was ‘Mentioned in Dispatches’ Like most former POWs he did not talk much about his experiences, it was a time he wanted to forget. He died at age 87

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