Penny, J W

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James William Penny

Family/Last name:
Penny
Forename(s) and initial(s):
James William
Military Unit:
British Army, Royal Norfolk Regiment
POW number:
13899
Camp
Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf / Stalag 344
Data sources
Other Sources (Relative's Report)
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From: Colin Penny 

Penny, JW

Penny, James William


I found your web site while trying to find war time references to my late father on the internet.
I’ve checked your list of names, and his is not among them.
My late father’s name is James William Penny, and he served with the Royal Norfolk Regiment, which may have been part of the Royal Anglian Regiment.He told me that he was a prisoner of war for eight years during WWII, and I’ve just been examining his metal ‘dog tags’ from his prison camp.
The inscriptions read : STALAG VIIIB – 13899 (I assume this was his individual number). The name ‘Lamsdorf’ does not appear, but I assume this is the same place.
He’d previously told me that he worked in the kitchen, and one particular German guard had taken great pleasure in hitting him with his rifle on more than one occasion, and also enjoyed kicking him.
On one particular day, after being abused by one or other technique, my father finally ‘snapped’ and grabbed the hand of the guard and held it onto a hot ring of the cooker.
I cannot remember what the punishment for this was. Maybe there was none if the German CO knew what the guard was like.

Colin Penny.

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