| Surname: | Nelson-Styth |
| Initials: | V R R |
| Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Army Number: | 7881395 |
| Notes: | CMP. POW. Enlisted Royal Tank Regiment, transferred to CMP. Casualty list 256, BEF, France, Missing 24/5/1940. Casualty List 317, BEF, France, previously reported o n list 256 as missing now POW. POW Stalag 383, Hohenfels, Rhineland Palatinate. 17/12/45 Discharged. Casualty List 1281, Corrections, List 317, BEF, France, previously reported missing now POW, previously shown on list 256 missing 24/5/1940 rank A/Cpl. Casualty List 1841, POW, reported as POW not now POW, previous list 317, (corrected by list 1281) France. General Questionnaire for British Ex-POW. Top Secret, MI9/Gen/MIS-X. 78199. 7881395, Cpl, Nelson-Styth, Victor Reginald Robert, 23 (Northumbrian) Div Pro Coy, CMP, born 25/5/06, enlisted 2/2/40, occupation Farmer, address: White Gate, Harrietcham, Nr Maidstone, Kent, Where captured ? Calais, 25/5/40. Were you wounded when captured ? No. Main POW Camps: Stalag XXIB Warthland, Poland, from 7/40 to 8/41, Stalag XXA Thorn, Poland, from 8/41 to 9/42, Stalag 383, Bavaria, Germany, 9/42 to 4/45. Were you in a working camp ? Yes, Magilne, Poland, from 9/40 to 5/41, road building. Escapes: Escaped from column between Bapaume and Cambrai at end of May 1940 with two companions, names unknown. Re captured in farm house 3 or 4 days later near Albert, companions also re captured. Have you any other matter of any ind you wish to bring to notice ? I would like to record my appreciation of the work done for the prisoners in Stalag 383 by our man of confidence SQMS Mackenzie. He showed great courage and diplomacy in his dealings with the detaining powers on our behalf. Victor Reginald Robert Nelson-Stythe. |
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| Imprisonment: | Stalag 383 GERMANY 🇩🇪 |