Dan Ranfurly

Dan Ranfurly

by | Jul 22, 2022 | stories eng

w Dan Ranfurly Thomas Daniel «Dan» Knox, VI Earl of Ranfurly Thomas Daniel «Dan» Knox, VI Earl of Ranfurly, was captured on 6 April 1941 between Derna and Mechili, in Cyrenaica, while he was with General Philip Neame as his aide-de-camp. Initially, the prisoners...
Ben Ellis

Ben Ellis

by | Jul 15, 2022 | stories eng

w Ben Ellis Ben Ellis, a South African from Johannesburg, was captured on 20 June 1942 in Tobruk, as the Axis forces conquered the city. His journey from there is not entirely clear, but he was certainly transferred to Benghazi, where he was in July 1942, and...
David Thomas Griffiths

David Thomas Griffiths

by | Jul 8, 2022 | stories eng

w David Thomas Griffiths Royal Army Ordinance Corps David Thomas Griffiths was born on 28 June 1916 and, before the war, was a truck driver in Bankyfelin, in Southern Wales. During the war, he served in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, the logistics branch of the...
George Albert Drew

George Albert Drew

by | Jul 8, 2022 | stories eng

w George Albert Drew VI Royal Tank Regiment George Albert Drew was born on 15 February 1919 and was a banker by profession in the village of Wisbech, near Cambridge. As the war started, he joined the VI Royal Tank Regiment as a corporal and was eventually...
Daljit Singh Kalha

Daljit Singh Kalha

by | Jul 8, 2022 | stories eng

w Daljit Singh Kalha Royal Indian Army Service Corps (RIASC) Captain Daljit Singh Kalha, an officer in the Royal Indian Army Service Corps (RIASC), was captured with his comrades in Tobruk on 28 June 1942 by the Germans. After two days without food, the PoWs were...
Fred Milner

Fred Milner

by | Jul 7, 2022 | stories eng

w Fred Milner Signal Corps Fred Milner, who served with the Signal Corps, was captured by German troops near Tobruk on 21 June 1942, when he was 23. His war experience had been exhausting: «my particular misfortune was being part of Signals because that meant...