Welsh, M A

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Mark Alexander Welsh Welsh

Family/Last name:
Welsh
Forename(s) and initial(s):
Mark Alexander Welsh
Service:
British Army
Military Unit:
British Army, Scots Guards
Place of capture:
Astypalaia
Camp
Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf / Stalag 344
Data sources
Contemporary Account/Diary
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Alison Boocock 12:16 AM on January 12, 2009

My father, Mark Alexander Welsh, M.M., was with the 2nd Batt Scots Guards and the Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) in North Africa(1937-1945). He was taken prisoner on Stampalia Island (Astypalaia) Dodecanese. I knew he was a POW and service documents I have show that he was in Camp Stalag 344 and 357 (Stalag VIIIB) from October 1943 until April 1945 when he escaped. He is mentioned in “G Patrol” (chapter, The Last Road Watch) and “In Rommel’s Backyard” (chapter nine). Unfortunately my father is now dead and I only wish while he was alive that I had asked and understood more.

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