| Surname: | Semple |
| Initials: | J |
| Rank: | Corporal |
| Army Number: | 7684412 |
| Notes: | CMP. CMP. Enlisted in CMP. Captured Middle East. Casualty List 856 Middle East, missing believed POW, 27/5/1942. Casualty List 924, Middle East, POW previously reported missing on List 856, now believed POW, 27/5/1942. POW Italian POW Camp No. no camp given. Casualty List 1777, POW, previously reported POW in German hands (Germany) now not POW, previous List 924, Middle East. Stalag 357, Oerbke, Lower Saxony. Questionnaire for Ex-POW, MI9/Gen/MI5-X. 109012, 7686412, Cpl, Semple, John, CMP, Cairo Area, MEF, born 16/3/08, enlisted 29/3/39 Territorial, occupation chauffeur, address: 127 Oran Street, N. Kelvinside, Glasgow, captured, Gazala (Libya), 27/5/42, were you wounded when captured ? No. POW Camps: OG.66, Capua from - to -, RG73, Carpi, Bolognia, from 7/43 to 9/43, Stalag XI1A, Altengrabow from 10/43 to 12/43, Stalag XIB Fallingbostel from 12/43 to 8/44, Stalag 357, from 8/44 to 5/45. Where you in a working camp? yes, Hallendorf from 12/43 to 8/44, work as interpreter. Did you suffer and serious illness while a POW? ? ? on legs, ? months, rheumatism, damp, one month. Did you receive adequate medical treatment? In first case there was a lack of medical supplies, in the second yes. Interrogation: placed in cell with other men in British uniform, who spoke with me but were obviously not Britishers. Escapes: Escaped from column while being marched east in April 45, contacted 15 Reconnaissance Group 18/4/45. Have you any other matter of any kind you wish to bring to notice? In Stalag 357 the POW quarters were in a pretty bad state thus causing rheumatism. |
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| Imprisonment: | Stalag 357 GERMANY 🇩🇪 |