| Surname: | Thairs |
| Initials: | R G |
| Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Army Number: | 7686881 |
| Notes: | CMP. Enlisted in to CMP. Casualty List 283, BEF, France, missing, 10/5 to 16/6/1940. Casualty List 460, POW previously reported Missing, List 283. POW Stalag 344, Lambinowice, Poland. Casualty List 1741, POW. Corrections, previous List 460 & 287, POW previously reported as missing. Casualty List 1762, POW. Previously reported POW in German hands (Germany) not now POW., previous List 480 (corrected by 1741) France. Questionnaire for Ex-POW, MI9/Gen/MI5-X. 27998. 7686881, L/Cpl, Thairs, Richard George, 5 L of C Pro Coy, CMP, born 20/11/16, enlisted 5/3/40, occupation building contractors assistant, address: 6 Bolton Street, Picadilly, London W1. Captured 25/5/40 Calais, were you wounded when captured ? No. Main POW Camps: Fresnes les Rungle, Paris, from 8/40 to 10/40, St Devis Caserne, from 10/40 to 11/40, Drancy, from 11/40 to ?/40, Stalag VIIIc, Hammelburr, from 11/40 to 2/41, Stalag VIIIb (344), Lamsdorf, from 12/41 to 3/45, Stalag XIIId, Nuremburg Langwasser, 3/45 to 4/45. Did you suffer and serious illnesses while a POW ? Yes, muscular injury to left shoulder, cause ? 5 weeks plus many weeks recovering. Did you receive adequate medical treatment ? yes from British medical staff in Lamsdorf. Did you receive a lecture of how to behave in the event of capture? Yes, 3/40 Squad instructor., Interrogation after capture: At (1) Berk-Plage (Pas de Calais), 6/40, direct interrogation. (2) Fresnes Les Rougis Prison, Paris, 8/40, solitary confinement, daily visits by Gestapo (Military), misleading inferences and false statements. (20 5/40 from marching column Nr Devres (Pas de Calais) with L/Cpl, Secombe, CMP. 6/40 re captured at Berck Plage, 6/40 from water logged rowing boat blown in from rough sea. Recaptured by German troops. Secombe escaped before embarkation and is now discharged the service, other companions unknown except for L/Cpl Blood, CMP. (2) J6/40 from Lille, forged passport to Paris, lived in hotels from loans from AM Embassy with Dvr. Barder, RASC, re captured 8/40 by Gestapo, Paris. Richard George Thairs. |
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| Imprisonment: | Stalag 344 POLAND 🇵🇱 |