| Surname: | Brooks |
| Initials: | J |
| Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Army Number: | 79654 |
| Notes: | CMP. POW. Formerly Royal Army Service Corps. 1/3/40 Transferred to CMP. VP. 7/4/41 Transferred to the Vulnerable Points Wing, CMP. 9/3/47 to discharge. Casualty List, 561, Missing, Crete, 2/6/1941. Casualty List 654/4, Previously shown on Casualty List 561 as missing, now POW, 2/6/1941. POW. Stalag 344, Lambinowice, Poland. Casualty List 1844, reported as POW not now POW, previous list 654, Crete. 10/11/48 He was awarded the 1939 - 1945 Star, Africa Star, Defence Medal, War Medal. Address:- 88 Mersea Road, Colchester, Essex. Jack Brooks. Info from MI9/Gen/MIS-X. Questionnaire for British/American ex POW's. Stalag VIIIB. 88872. 79654, L/Cpl, Brooks, Jack, CMP, 2 Armoured Div Pro Coy, born 7/8/21, civil occupation gas fitter, address: 88 Mersea Road, Colchester, Essex, captured 1/6/41, Crete, not wounded, Main Camp: Stalag VIIIB, Lamsdorf, Germany from 23/8/41 to 10/9/41, Work Camps: Oppeln, Germany 10/9/41 to 7/5/42, unloading barges, Sosnovitz, Poland, 2/5/42 to 17/1/45, coal mining, were you ill, no, did you received adequate medical treatment ? No. Jack Brooks. |
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| Imprisonment: | Stalag 344 POLAND 🇵🇱 |