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15 October 2014
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Prisoner of War: France 1940

by kirstywaknell

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kirstywaknell
People in story:听
Mr D Miller
Location of story:听
France
Background to story:听
Army
Article ID:听
A2237726
Contributed on:听
27 January 2004

In January 1940, aged 22, I went to France as part of the Duke of Wellington Regiment. On 12th June I was wounded and in a hospital in France. I became a POW and ended up in Czechoslovakia. In 1944/45 the Russians came and let us go. I flew back to England with the RAF.

I also had a brother who was a POW.

When I was injured I had a tin of drinking chocolate in my back pocket. There was shrapnel stuck in it once I was hit which was lucky.

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