Rawlinson, C

Cyril Rawlinson

Family/Last name:
Rawlinson
Forename(s) and initial(s):
Cyril
Place of capture:
Dunkirk
Date of capture:
1940
Camp
Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf / Stalag 344
Data sources
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From: Brian Hodgins: Sunday, November 13, 2011 10:27 PM

Subject: Cyril Rawlinson

Last year my Uncle Cyril passed away and whilst “doodling” on my PC I found your web site.

Cyril Rawlinson was captured at Dunkirk and transported to Stalag VIIIB where he spent much of the war.  Towards the end he somehow escaped and was taken in by a Polish family.  As the Russian forces advanced he was asked to marry the daughter of the family.  This he did and the two were later released by the Russians and shipped back to the UK from Odessa.

Whilst this may sound exaggerated but it was true.  As a youngster of 12 years I can remember meeting Eva Maria Delesko at my Grandmother’s house.  She was introduced as Uncle Cyril’s wife and my memory is of a raven haired beautiful woman.

Sadly it was a marriage of convenience and soon afterwards they were divorced, Eva moving to the south coast where she ultimately became a paediatric nurse or doctor.  Uncle Cyril did re-marry and had a good life in Halifax.

Whilst I was given the story by my Grandmother, Uncle Cyril was always reticent to enlarge on the basics.  Who knows? someone on your site may know a little more of this “romance”.

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