| Surname: | Pickard |
| Initials: | A |
| Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Army Number: | 4535930 |
| Notes: | CMP. POW. Formerly West Yorkshire Regiment. Transferred to CMP. Casualty List 504/5, Middle East, Cyrenaica listed as missing, 6/4/1941. Casualty List 558/6, Cyrenaica, now POW previously reported Missing on List 504. POW Italian POW Camp No. 78, Sulmona later Stalag 344, Lambinowice, Poland. Casualty List 1849/25, POW, reported as POW now not POW, previous list 588 Cyrenaica. Medal card not found. General Questionnaire for British POW. MI9/Gen/MIS-X. 87755. 4535930, L/Cpl, Pickard, Arthur Edward, 7Armd Div Pro Coy, CMP, born 6/1/13, enlisted 11/12/33, occupation Motor Driver, 6 Birch Lane, West Bowling, Bradford, captured1/4/41, Tripoli, North Africa, POW Camps Camp 78, Sulmona, from8/41 to 5/43, Stalag 344, Lamsdorf from 9/43 to 11/44, Working Party 344, Vasvaldie, 19/12/44 to 20/1/44, working party Kongistine from 4/45 to 1/5/45, were you in a working camp ? Yes, Vavaldie, 18/12/44 TO 20/1/45, food dump. Did you receive adequate medical treatment ? Yes. Did you receive lecture on how to behave as POW ? No.. Did you receive lecture on escape and evasion ? No. Interrogation after capture ? Yes, Tripoli, North Africa, yes, by force, i/c revolvers and rifle and made to stand against the wall with hands raised, Did you attempt to escape ? No. Sabotage ? Vasvaldie, destroying food which was in paper sacks, impossible to eat afterwards, date not known. Have you any other matter if any kind you wish to bring to notice ? I was placed in close confinement for trying to receive food extra in Italy. I was also placed in confinement by a British camp leader Sub Conductor Amos, No. not known, RAOC, 5/43, Sulmona. |
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| Imprisonment: | Stalag 344 POLAND 🇵🇱 |