Williams, J

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Lance Corporal Joseph Williams

Family/Last name:
Williams
Forename(s) and initial(s):
Joseph
Date of birth:
1902
Nationality:
British
Service number:
3906566
Military Unit:
British Army, South Wales Borderers
Rank when captured:
Lance Corporal
Place of capture:
Belgium
POW number:
1934
Camp
Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf / Stalag 344
Data sources
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From: Joe Williams

Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2013 

 My father was at Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf POW camp.

His name was Joseph Williams, he was in the South Wales Borderers Regt.

As a member of the BEF, he was in the first Army, to be sent to France, in the 1939 – 45 conflict, he was a Lance Corporal, he was born in 1902, 

He told me, that he was defending, with a Bren gun, a Canal, in Belgium, it was shortly after this he was captured. I don’t know the dates, as he didn’t tell me, his Service No was 3906566, and his POW No was, 1934.

He told me, that the Camp was near to a Concentration camp, he never told me which one, he did tell that you could smell it, if the wind was in the right direction, he also told me, that he worked, in the salt mines.

He was on the Long March, and that during that march, he fell ill, and a German sergeant, one of the Camp guards, carried him for a period, he told me this with a sense of gratitude, I believe, to show me that all German soldiers were not thugs, or maybe, one old soldier helping another. My Father died in 1974, of stomach cancer.

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