His POW I.D. Plate that shows V11A would be the Camp where he went through the German Registration process before being allocated to another Camp.
In all likelihood he would have been in a Work Camp which could have been many miles from Stalag 17B.
It is also likely that he was moved Westwards in one of the early months of 1945.
Locations of POW Given in the 1945 lists give the date the file was compiled. Not necessarily his location in 1945.
For P.O.W. Locations in Italy go to T.N.A. Website and key in WO 392/21 on "Discovery".
Read the recently added notes which will explain that the POW lists for Italy cannot be trusted.
As you say he was badly injured it is possible he was repatriated before the end of the War and then it would be doubtful that he made a "Liberation Report" that can be found.
Hi
I am trying to put together history of husbands great grandad who fought in the Second World War.
He is very interested in his grandfathers history so this is a special birthday present I'm putting together. I have some info but can't seem to find much else out. The info I have is below.
David Hume
Born 29 th June 1914
Edinburgh
Royal army services corps
Driver
Army number T/2827823
I believe he was based in Africa and was captured and taken to Italy to a POW camp, the record of this I have found online is that he was in P.O.W. Camp number 53, Urbisaglia Macerata, (Also listed as Sforza Costa), postal mark number 3300
I'm sure he was there for a couple of years.
Also online it says he was in another pow camp in Austria stalag 17b, Gneixendorf.
POW No. 153486
He also had a pow plate which says stalag viia which from what I could see is a different camp to the stalag one stated above.
Apparent while in one of the camps he was very injured and was due to be killed .
None of the family knew much about the history as understandably it was very difficult to talk about .
He so has two badges that are from the seaforth highlanders, if there is any info regarding this?
Any information as to how I could find out more would be greatly appreciated.
Regards
Karen
