by Simon_Fielding » Tue Jun 28, 2011 7:43 pm
The basic material in ancestry.co.uk lists:
Name: H. A. Neal
Rank: Private
Army Number: 5253396
Regiment: Worcestershire Regiment
POW Number: 15718
Camp Type: Stalag
Camp Number: 344
Camp Location: Lambinowice, Poland
Record Office: Infantry Record Office, Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Record Office Number: 19
Source Information
Ancestry.com. UK, British Army Prisoners of War, 1939-1945 ? ?. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2009.
Original data: Prisoners of War of British Army, WWII. CD. Unpublished. The Naval and Military Press, Ltd.
About UK, British Army Prisoners of War, 1939-1945
This database contains a listing of World War II British Army prisoners of war (POW). Information provided about them includes:
Name
Rank
Army number
Regiment
POW number
Camp type
Camp number
Camp location
Record office
Record Office number
Notes
The Geneva Convention of 1929 established the rules for the treatment of prisoners of war that were used in World War II. Over 100,000 soldiers of the British Army were captured during this war and placed in prisoner of war camps. There were two types of POW camps run by the Germans that soldiers of the British Army were assigned to. These were:
Oflag – camp for officers
Stalag – camp for enlisted personnel
There were separate camps for navy, aircrews, and civilians.
The German camps were named according to a numbering system, beginning with a Roman numeral representing the military district the camp was located in. Following the Roman numeral could be a letter. This letter represented a specific camp within the military district. If the camp was a sub-camp, “/Z” was then appended to the end of the number. If the camp was a main camp, then the “/H” was appended to the end of the number. You will see this nomenclature in the “Camp number” field of this database.
Researching the 75 men of the Great War Memorial of St Anne's Church, Bewdley, Worcestershire .