POW RECORDS

[Lizzy Drippin]

My father was a POW in Austria in the second world war and I would love to know when and where he was captured. Does anyone know how I could go about this.
Lizzy

[pjs12]

Hi Lizzy,

There is a topic on the following link which may help you http://www.rootschat.com.forum/index.php?topic=651361.0

Ian

[t mo]

hi lizzy
can you give us a name please and we may be able to help ,with a lookup in pow records .
regards
trevor

ps ian that link doesn,t work

[Lizzy Drippin]

Hi Ian glad you said that, I'm not great on the computer and I thought it was me.
These are all the details I have, John William Lakin King's Own Royal Regiment. Army number 869796. POW number 155792. Stalag XV11-A.  Kaisersteinbruch Austria.
Lizzy.

[t mo]

hi lizzy
as far as it goes you already have what I could find for him but in the national archives they have questionnaires that were filled out by SOME pows from the camps so you might get lucky that way as they have detail of where a soldier was capture and so forth .
to add to what you have the camp was number 17 .
I don,t know if this may help but worth getting in touch just to see what they have on the pow record on FindMyPast it has infantry record office , the public hall , lune st ,preston , lancs .
do a google search you should find it and hopefully it will have an e mail address .
and lastly have you applied for his service record if not got to www.veterans-uk.info on there it tells you all you need to know about applying for his record it does take a long time to come through over a year I believe now .
regards
trevor

[Lizzy Drippin]

Hi Trevor thanks for that, I will give it a try.
Lizzy

[xxfoghornxx]

i know a family member was a POW when he was in world war 2 but i only know his name and the area he was born and date and who he married how do i find out his reg number i have traced a reg number of a T jackson in east lancs but how do i know this is the right guy

[t mo]

hi
if you mean east lancs regiment for t Jackson then this is the only one I can see in pow records
camp no 20b
pow no 13458
soldier no 3387720
camp type stalag
camp location marienburg 

it may help if you can give us all you know for him re ww2 and also did he have any middle names as there are quite a few jacksons with 2 or more initials .
regards
trevor