Tickner, A S

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Alfred Samuel (Tickie) Tickner

Family/Last name:
Tickner
Forename(s) and initial(s):
Alfred Samuel (Tickie)
Date of birth:
1911
Nationality:
British
Service:
British Army
Military Unit:
British Army, Gloucestershire Regiment
Place of capture:
Cassell
Date of capture:
1940
Camp
Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf / Stalag 344
Data sources
Contemporary Account/Diary
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My father was Alfred Samuel Tickner (known as Tickie) and a regular soldier in the 2nd Battalion Gloucestershire regiment. After being captured in 1940 at Cassell he was taken to Lamsdorf and after writing his story of his experiences during this dreadful time, I can relate his tales to many others on your site. You were very helpful in the past with helping me interpret the coalmines he worked in as his pronunciations wasn’t so good on the tapes that he made. He was born in 1911 and passed away in 2004.

After about three years he was too ill to work outside down the mines and as he could speak German and Polish very well by now, he was asked to be an interpreter and also worked in the photography room with a civilian photographer called Anna and a German soldier called Franz. I have recently come across some of his photos that he brought home with him and have attached these for your site in case anyone can recognise these men with my father (the little one with the moustache)

Names and nicknames of men that he mentioned were Digger, Juggie Bennet, Oscar (Holyfield), Tiny Boyce, Chris Shields, Bill Campbell (an Australian), Marina (a sergeant in the Marines) Alf Hodges (Corporal in the Leicesters) and Marty (US African).

He also brought home pictures of groups outside the huts and concert parties/plays, boxing matches, sports days and outdoor dressing up parades.

 

Elaine Cox

 

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