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Corps of Military Police Record

Surname:Atkinson
Initials:A V
Rank:Lance Corporal
Army Number:806780
Notes:CMP. POW. Enlisted in the Royal Artillery (field,coast & AA), transferred to CMP. 10/45 to class Z (T) Res.
Casualty lists 276/33, BEF, France, POW, 73.
POW Stalag 344, Lambinowice, Poland.
Casualty List 1846, now not POW, 276, France. 23/2/46 Discharged.
18/3/50 He was awarded the 1939 - 1945 Star, War Medal.
Address:- 24 Main Street, St. Bees, Cumberland.
Questionnaire for Ex-POW, MI9/Gen/MI5-X. 90417. 806780, L/cpl, Atkinson, Albert Victor, 5 L of C Pro Coy, CMP, born 3/6/11, enlisted 11/12/39, occupation Police Constable, address: 12 Brisco Mount, Egremont, Cumberland, captured 23/5/40 at Oye Plage, were you wounded when captured ? No, Main POW camps:- Stalag XXa, Shokken from 3/7/40 to 19/9/40, Stalag XXIb, Shubin, from 19/9/20 to 1/11/40, Stalag XXId, Posen, from 1/11/40 to 27/7/44, Stalag 344, Lambsdorf, from 22/7/44 to 23/1/45, Stalag 3a, Ludkenwalde, from 18/4/45 to 20/5/45. Work Camps Schokken from 3/7/40 to 19/9/40, labourer, Schubin from 19/9/40 to 1/11/40, labourer, Posen, from 1/11/40 to 27/7/44, labourer. Did you suffer serious illnesses while a PW ? No.
Albert Victor Atkinson.
Prisoner of War Record:
Imprisonment: Stalag 344 POLAND 🇵🇱