| Surname: | Castleton |
| Initials: | B |
| Rank: | Private |
| Army Number: | 7684622 |
| Notes: | CMP. Enlisted in to CMP. Casualty List 865 Middle East, Missing 4/6/1942. Casualty List 890, Middle East, now POW previously reported Missing on List 865, 4/6/1942. Captured North Africa, Italian POW camp No. 54, Fara in Sabina (Nr Rome), Stalag 344, Lambinowice, Poland. Captured in North Africa, prisoner in Italy then Germany. Casualry List 1095, Corrections, List 890, Middle East, POW previously reported Missing on list 722, 4/6/42. Casualty List 1821, POW. Reported POW not now POW, previous List 890 (corrected by 1095 & 1458) Middle East. General Questionnaire for British POW. MI9/Gen/MIS-X. 125167. 7684622, Cpl, Castleton, Bryan, decoration: Africa Star, 150 Bde, 50 (Northumberland) Div Pro Coy, CMP, born 11/7/19, enlisted 4/39, occupation Draughtsman, address:- Southfield, Falcon road, Bingley, Yorkshire. Captured 1/6/42. North Africa. Were you wounded when captured ? No. Main POW Camps:- Camp 66, Brindisi, 6/42 to 7/42, Capua, 7/42 to 8/42, Caserta Hospital, 8/42 to10/42, Camp 54, Fara Sabina from 10/42 to 9/43, Stalag 344 Lamsdorf, Germany from 7/43 to 1/44. Were you in a working camp ? No. Did you suffer from any serious illnesses while a PW, ? No. Did you receive a lecture on how to behave in the event of capture ? No. Were you lectured on escape and evasion ? No. Interrogation after capture ? Yes, Rome 29/3/44, Via Tasso, Gestapo Prison. Methods not brutal to English, unspeakable methods used on Yugolsavians, Italian Jews, Poles, etc. Soft soap interrogation with English, unless suspected of transmitting, spying etc. Escape attempts:- 19/10/42 escaped from German jail Polumara, 30 miles east of Rome, names of companions (3) forgotten. Found secret passage in old castle, made hole in wall, escaped at nigh. Recaptured in Rome 29/3/44 by facist and Gestapo. 2nd escape attempted 4/44 Camp 82, 5/44, Mantua, Italy. Sabotage:- Nothing big. Bryan Castleton. Bryan Castleton |
Decoration Record: | |
| Decoration: | Mention in Despatches (London Gazette: 37787 Page: 5607 Nov. 14, 1946) |
| Citation: | In the Field. Citation for MID: CASTLETON was captured in AFRICA in June 1942, imprisoned in ITALY and made several attempts to escape. On the first occasion CASTLETON managed to get away on a mass escape in September 1943 and reached the mountains. After recapture and internment in a castle he escaped again along an old passage, spending the next four months in hiding near ROME where he was sheltered by anti-fascists. Later CASTLETON twice tried to escape by tunnelling once from a train and twice from the line of march before he was finally liberated in April 1945.National Archive WO 373/103. |
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| Imprisonment: | Stalag 344 POLAND 🇵🇱 |