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The Registry of Burials in Stalag XXA

       Last year, we did some research about POWs burials in Torun, Stalag XXA between 1939-1945. We have found quite a few names of late Prisoners of War.
All of them, were exhumated after the IIWW. Today, we publish a first part of the document.




name and surname rank POW date of birth date of death  funeral date
Frank Grafrey (?) senior private POW 19.11.1920 01.07.1940 04.07.1940
Wiliam Alfred Winchester senior private POW 15.08.1915 14.07.1940 17.07.1940
Robert Smith senior private POW 15.12.1915 18.07.1940 22.07.1940
Aloys Ramsel
POW 08.01.1916 07.07.1940 11.07.1940
Herbert Sykes senior private POW 22.09.1906 21.07.1940 24.07.1940
Edward Gaarden senior private POW 30.11.1914 22.07.1940 25.07.1940
Peter MacKay(MacRay) senior private POW 18.12.1917 08.08.1940 10.08.1940
Arthur Marant(?) senior private POW ? 02.08.1940 06.08.1940
Wiliam Waeltherton (Watterton?) senior private POW 11.10.1918 02.08.1940 09.08.1940
Frederick Pickaning (?) senior private POW 07.04.1906 04.08.1940 09.08.1940
Elias Hall senior private POW 08.11.1912 16.08.1940 20.08.1940
Edward Wiliam Dann senior private POW 12.09.1912 (?) 22.08.1940 27.08.1940
Leonard Griffiths senior private POW 09.04.1911 22.08.1940 27.08.1940
Hedley Bowermann senior private POW 22.08.1918 25.08.1940 28.08.1940
Alex Kyle senior private POW 07.05.1917 27.08.1940 30.08.1940
Henry William Woading senior private POW 28.06.1910 07.09.1940 10.09.1940
Gerry Ford senior private POW 02.05.1910 09.09.1940 13.09.1940
Robert Coultis(?) senior private POW 07.11.1910 20.08.1940 22.08.1940
Robert Rattray(?) senior private POW 22.07.1919 06.09.1940 10.09.1940
James Redpath senior private POW 23.04.1918 27.09.1940 01.10.1940
Thomas Race senior private POW 19.03.1920 30.09.1940 02.10.1940
Paul Lengian  senior private POW ? 09.09.1940 12.09.1940
Edward Collin 
POW 14.02.1918 01.10.1940 10.10.1940
Leonard Cooper senior private POW 17.10.1904 22.10.1940 25.10.1940
James Russel senior private POW 28.09.1919 31.10.1940 04.11.1940
John Stout senior private POW 26.03.1905 02.11.1940 05.11.1940
John Robinson senior private POW 20.11.1917 31.10.1940 03.11.1940
John Bosko senior private POW ? ? ?
John Basted (Rasted) senior private POW 26.01.1906 02.11.1940 05.11.1940
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