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Prisoners of War WW2 photos

What a great thread, only just come across it. It was good to see that in most of the photos the guys looked reasonably healthy. More than can be said for those in Japanese Prisoner of war camps. One of our neighbours living at 46 Abbey Road Erdington, think his name was Upton, was in a Japanese POW camp. I remember his mom telling us she had had a letter from him and asked her to save the stamp. She thought it strange as he did not collect stamps. She steamed it off the envelope and found he had written on the back of the stamp about the atrocities taking place. I wont relate here what they were but some of them made me feel physically sick. He was certainly not the same man after returning home.
 
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Prisoners from Birmingham and district at Stalag VIII.
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Repatriations in 1943.
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These men were in Stalag VIIIB, they were serving in Crete. Viv.

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Source: British Newspaper Archive
 

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gerrard st lozells viv so my rellies neck o woods...family research so far has not turned up any POWS but that does not mean there were none...thanks oh there are a few of the old houses still standing in gerrard st but no 74 was demolished many years ago

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This one is of men who were prisoners in Stalag XXA.

I’m not too clear about who would have taken these photographs and how would they have found their way to families ?

Viv.


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There are probably 6 Birmingham men captured in this photo of the camp Stalag XVIIIA

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Source: British Newspaper Archive
 
Welcome Janet. Yes, totally agree. It must have been a relief to families to see their loved ones in photos like these. The early photos must have given little guarantee of the men making it home but it would have offered so much hope to families.

Viv.
 
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