Stalag VIIIB

Location: Lamsdorf, Poland

District: Wehrkreis VIII - Breslau (Wroclaw)

Opened: 1939

Closed: November 1943 - Thereafter renamed Stalag 344, which closed in March 1945.

Reports

Red Cross Report, 17th June 1941

Red Cross Report, August 1941

Red Cross Report, 16th October 1941

Red Cross Report, 12th December 1941

Red Cross Report, 27th January 1942

Red Cross Report, 12th February 1942

Red Cross Report, 5th May 1942

Red Cross Report, 4th August 1942

Red Cross Report, 5th September 1942

Red Cross Report, 28th November 1942

Red Cross Report, 12th February 1943

Red Cross Report, 9th March 1943

Red Cross Report, 29th June 1943

Red Cross Report, 7th October 1943

Red Cross Report, 30th October 1943

Red Cross Report, 7th February 1944

Red Cross Report, 4th May 1944

Red Cross Report, 26th June 1944

Red Cross Report, 21st September 1944

Red Cross Report, 7th December 1944

Red Cross Report, 8th December 1944

Red Cross Report, 19th December 1944

Red Cross Report, 22nd January 1945

Report on the Journey of Hospital Patients Evacuated from Stalag 344, 2nd March 1945

E715 Auschwitz, Newspaper Article

E715 Auschwitz, The Long March

See also BAB 20, BAB 21

Biographies

Name

Nat.

Date

Maj William Robert Henderson

British

1940-45

POW Stories

Name	Nat.	Date
W/O James Badcock	British	1942-45
Pte George Beck	British	1940-45
L/Cpl Harry James Bounden	British	1942-45
Pte George Charlton	British	1940-45
Sgmn Andrew Cheyne	British	1940-45
Gnr Robbie Clark	British	1942-45
WOI Jack Elworthy	British	1941-45
Pte Les Foskett	British	1940-45
Cpl Gordon Hines	British	1942-45
Pte Bernard Holland	British	1942-45
W/O Peter Jones	British	1942-43
Pte Gordon Jerrett	British	1944-45
Pte Gerry Maller	British	1940-45
Bdr Donald Matheson	British	1940-45
Sgmn Jack Mepham	British	1941-44
L/Cpl Jim Miller	NZ	1941-45
Pte Len Murphy	British	1943-45
Pte William Pledger	British	1940-45
Ronald Redman	British	1944-45
Gdsm Charles Saunders	British	1942-45
Cpl Harold Scharfe	British	1942-45
Sgt Norman Shute	Australian	1941-45
Cpl John Smeeth	British	1940-45
Dvr John Watson	British	1941-45
F/Sgt Ron Wood	British	1943-45
Pte Horace Woods	NZ	1942-45
Gdsm George Wyatt	British	1940-45

Escape

Name	Nat.	Date
P/O Keith Bruce Chisholm	Australian	1942
Sgt Samuel Herbert Cooke	British	1944
Cpl Henry Cooper	Australian	1944
Sgt Bruce Joshua Crowley	NZ	1943
F/Sgt James Patrick Dowd	British	1943
Sgmn Patrick Joseph Harkin	British	1944
Sgt Seneca Lent McMullen	Canadian	1943
Spr Norman Middleton	British	1944
L/Sgt Alfred Clarence Searson	British	1943
Gnr Martin Henry Winterburn	British	1944

Books

Boldness Be My Friend, by Richard Pape, published by Elek Books, 1953.

Despite Captivity - A Doctor's Life as Prisoner of War, by John Borrie, published by William Kimbber and Co Ltd., 1975.

Letters from Stalag VIIIB, by Arthur Evans CBE and Kathy Gower

Sequel to Boldness, by Richard Pape, published by Oldhams press Ltd., 1959.

Sojourn in Silesia 1940/45, by Arthur Evans, published by Ashford Writers, 1995

The Long Way Home: The Other Great Escape, by John McCallum MM ISM, published by Birlinn Ltd., 2005

Links

Central Prisoner of War Museum in Lambinowice

Harold Pitt - Youtube videos 1 and 2

Sgt Don Bruce 115 Squadron RAF

The Life and Times of Hubert Brooks MC CD