Guardsman Sydney Pritchard

Family/Last name:
Pritchard
Forename(s) and initial(s):
Sydney
Place of birth:
Aberdare, Wales.
Date of birth:
7/5/1918
Nationality:
Service number:
2735347
Military Unit:
Rank when captured:
Place of capture:
Boulogne, France
Date of capture:
25/5/1940
POW number:
6340
Data sources
Contemporary Account/DiaryOther Sources (Relative's report)

From Sian Ward 11/11/2023.

My late father’s book. Life in the Welsh Guards 1939-1946

I have found that dad, after being captured in Boulogne, walked and then went by cattle truck to Stalag XXA Thorn, before being taken around September 1940 to Stalag XXA Thorn where he was given his POW number of 6340.

He later moved to various working camps (that is what I need to discover) , moving to camp XB at Sandbostel and then to Fallingbostel, but I am still trying to find which camp there.

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