| Surname: | Irvine |
| Initials: | G |
| Rank: | Private |
| Army Number: | 3652718 |
| Notes: | CMP. POW. Enlisted in the South Lancashire Regiment, transferred to CMP. Casualty List 295, BEF, France, Missing, date not reported. Casualty List 334, BEF, France, POW previously reported a missing, shown on Casualty List 265 as missing. Casualty List 1580, BEF France, now POW previously reported Missing, date not reported. Stalag IIIA, Luckenwalde, Brandenburg. Casualty List 1796, POW, previously reported POW in German hands (Germany) not now POW, previous List 334 corrected by 1580. 3/3/46 Discharged. General Questionnaire for British ex-POW, MI9/Gen/MIS-X. 95997. 3652718, L/Cpl, Irvine, George, 5 Div Pro Coy, CMP, born 21/4/16, enlisted 22/5/34, occupation none, address: 184 Thuelestone Road, Longbridge, Birmingham, captured Tourcoin, France, 28/5/40, were you wounded when captured ? No. Main POW Camps: VIIIB, Lamsdorf, from 6/40 to 1943, Stalag VIIB, Tauchen, from 43 to 44, Stalag IIIA, Luchenwalder, from 5/43 to 5/45. Did you suffer any serious illness when a POW ? No. Did you receive adequate medical treatment ? No, not enough treatment for anything. Did you receive a lecture on how to behave as a POW ? No. Did you receive a lecture on escape and evasion? Yes, Lamsdorf, 1941, RSM From. Were you interrogated after capture ? yes. 1940, 1941 Lamsdorf, They tried to get me in other words to join the German Army and the BFC (British Free Corps) also they asked me where my comrades were in 1940. Have you any other matter of any kind you wish to bring to notice ? Yes, when in the Coal Mines I was sick six times due to the lack of fresh air, the German foreman beat me with his stick and made me work. Also the German Corporal and two guards came down and stood over us with revolvers. George Irvine. |
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| Imprisonment: | Stalag III A GERMANY 🇩🇪 |