| Surname: | Bright |
| Initials: | J |
| Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Army Number: | 3908468 |
| Notes: | CMP. POW. Enlisted in the South Wales Borderers, transferred to CMP. Casualty List 532, Greece, Missing, 28/4/1941. Casualty List 639 previously shown on Casualty List 532 as missing now POW, 28/4/41 POW Stalag XVIIA, Wolfsberg, Austria. Casualty List 1797, not now POW, previous list 639, Greece. 4/2/46 Discharged. General Questionnaire for British Ex- POW. MI9/Gen/. MIS-X. 121216. 3908468, L/cpl, Bright, Jack, decorations:- IGSM NWF 1936 - 1937, Africa Star, Unit:- 1 Cavalry Division Pro Coy, born 7/3/14, enlisted 18/8/33, occupation Carpenter, address: 38 Rednall Terrace, London W 6., captured:- Corinth, Greece 26/4/41,, were you wounded when captured, ? No. Main POW Camps: Stalag XVIIIB Marburg, from 3/41 to 8/43, Stalag XVII A, Wolfsberg, from 8/41 to 8/43 Where you in a working camp ? Yes, Camp 11041, from 8/41 to 3/43, interpreter, Camp 11025, 3/43 to 9/44, railway work, Camp 786 from 9/44 to 5/45, ironmongers shop. Did you suffer from any illnesses whilst POW: No. Did you receive a lecture on how to behave in the event of capture ? Yes, Hill Memorial School, Athens, 12/40 by OC Capt Oxborrow. Did you receive a lecture on escape an evasion? Yes, Hill Memorial School Athens, 3/41 by OC Capt Oxborrow. Did you make any escape attempts? Yes, escaped from Camp 186/GW and was out six weeks until finally released by the Russians. Sabotage, did you destroy any enemy material ? Yes, stopped machinery working at camp 11047 whilst acting as interpreter on road works. Collaboration with the enemy ? None. On May 1945 whilst hiding in a house for nearly six weeks we were released by Russian Troops. We were later put on a lorry and sent to Gray where we later made our way on foot to join the 27 Lancers who were 24 km away. We later made our way to Klagenfurt and then by air to Naples. Jack Bright. |
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| Imprisonment: | Stalag 18A AUSTRIA 🇦🇹 |