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Graudenz a hard camp for pow from Stalag XXA Thorn



Those prisoners of war who committed a crime were sent to a hard labour camp to Graudenz (ap.100km north from Thorn). Here is the list of those who were sent there on 19.06.1943
no
name
Date of birth
occupation
1
4752
Victor Websell
9.12.17
shoemaker
2
5175
Harris Newman
7.11.12
conductor
3
5737
Frank Chaney
9.08.16
?
4
5862
John Wright
14.08.14
worker
5
5891
Eric Mayne
2.01.14
police officer
6
6184
Alfred Hill
21.07.19
?
7
7507
Robert Smith
24.05.08
?
8
8662
Thomas Coles
7.10.11
?
9
9368
William Lancaster
23.04.18
painter
10
9699
Richard Street
25.02.19
worker
11
10277
Henry Riley
23.03.09
?
12
10562
John Taylor
7.03.08
helper
13
10755
Walter Herbert Litehfield/Burr ?
29.01.19
gardener
14
11246
Robert Graham
4.05.11
helper
15
11292
John Joseph Joyce
2.07.18
?
16
12352
Raymond Smith
10.12.19
Worker
17
13759
Alfred Lawrence Jackson
19.05.19
helper
18
13784
Frederick Whitfield Austen
10.01.20
helper
19
14455
Herbert Henry Howarth
21.12.21
?
20
15132
Ivor Cottrell
3.03.19
helper
21
15181
Victor Hessey
15.05.06
baker
22
15545
Robert Diamond
27.02.20
Driver
23
26372
Joseph Clayton
7.02.18
soldier
24
15954
George Graham
28.05.15
helper
25
15972
Frank Duncan Hoile
3.02.15
tradesman
26
16647
Thomas Young
13.01.19
post office worker
27
16916
Alfred Hudson
28.04.06
driver
28
17680
John Ellis
15.02.10
Worker
29
17959
Hugh Bone
8.06.18
paver
30
5526
Anthony Laurence O’Brien
13.06.18
wagoner
31
18858
William Edward Weeson
28.11.12
helper
32
19332
Charles McGeary
20.08.19
street worker
33
19474
George Starkey
27.06.20
helper
34
19489
Frederick Loakes
20.07.20
shoemaker
35
19890
Henry Handley
15.10.07
medical orderly
36
19904
John Smith
4.04.09
soldier
37
20679
Reay Poundall
10.07.19
butcher

 

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