| Surname: | Thelwell |
| Initials: | A |
| Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Army Number: | 3976695 |
| Notes: | CMP. POW. Formerly Welch Regiment, later Army Air Corps, transferred to CMP. Captured Arnhem, 1 Sect, 1 Para Bde. Casualty List 1578/49, North West Europe, missing believed POW, 25/9/1944, 1 Airborne Div Pro Coy. POW Stalag XIIA, Wurttemberg. Casualty List 1617/26, Previously reported missing believed POW now reported POW in German hands (Germany) 1 Airborne Div Pro Coy, previous list 1578, 25/9/44. Casualty List 1845, previously reported POW not now POW, previous list 1617, Western Europe, 1 Airborne Div Pro Coy. 11/1946 to discharge. Questionnaire for Ex-POW, MI9/Gen/MI5-X. 92057. 3976695, L/Cpl, Thelwell, Arthur, 1 Airborne Div Pro Coy, CMP, born 25/11/22, enlisted 15/1/42, occupation Steel Worker, Address: Ferndale, Northop, Mould, Flintshire, North Wales, Captured 15/9/44 at Arnhem, were you wounded when captured ? No. Main POW Camps:- Stalag XIIa, Limburg, from 22/9/44 to 10/44, Stalag IVb, Muhlburg, from 4/10/'44 to 28/10/44, Stalag IVc, Teplitz, from 28/10/144 to 16/5/45. Did you suffer any serious illnesses while a PW ? Yes yellow jaundice, 2 weeks, Did your receive adequate medical treatment ? Yes. Were you lectured on escape and evasion ? Not particularly, were you interrogated by the enemy ? No avoided it. Sabotage: Yes while working on railway plate couplings, such things as not butting joints up, not making the bedding firm causing delay in shipment from 18/2/44 to 5/44, Hydra Works, Brox, Sudenternland. Collaboration with enemy ? no details of any. 1/4/50 He was awarded the 1939-1945 Star, France & Germany Star, Defence Medal, War Medal. Address:- "Ferndale", Noathop, Mold, Flintshire, Wales. Arthur Thelwell. |
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| Imprisonment: | Stalag XII A GERMANY 🇩🇪 |