| Surname: | Pickard |
| Initials: | A |
| Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Army Number: | 4535930 |
| Notes: | CMP. POW. Formerly West Yorkshire Regiment. Transferred to CMP. Casualty List 504, Middle East, Cyrenaica listed as missing, 6/4/1941. Casualty List 558, Cyrenaica, now POW previously reported Missing on List 504. POW Italian POW Camp No. 78, Sulmona later Stalag 344, Lambinowice, Poland. Casualty List 1849, POW, reported as POW now not POW, previous list 588 Cyrenaica. 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 🇵🇱 |