| NAME | Braysher | John Oliver |
| RANK | IN GREECE
Gunner |
ON DEMOB
N/K |
| SERIAL NUMBER | SERVICE
1398316 |
PRISONER
5938 |
| UNIT | IN GREECE
2 Regt RHA |
|
| ACTIVE
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IN GREECE
17 March – 28 April |
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| METHOD OF DEPARTURE
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Captured/surrendered at Kalamata 29 April 1941 | |
| POW CAMPS
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IN GREECE
Presumably Dulags 185 Corinth & 183 Salonika |
IN OCCUPIED EUROPE
Stalag XVIIID, Marberg; Stalag XVIIIA, Wolfsberg; Stalag XVIIIC, Markt Pongau.
ArbKdo 76HV, Gosting, Graz; ArbKdo 571/L Mitterlasnitz bei Graz |
| NOTES
Source: Son (Chris) “John met my mother . . . before he was posted to fight in North Africa. He sent letters to (her) via his sister during the war and when he returned home in 1945, he sought her out and they married on 25th September 1946. On 23rd July 1947, they joined an overland trek from Margate to South Africa to start a new life in that country, as he had fallen in love with the place following his brief wartime stay. Whilst crossing the Sahara the trek leader Robert McKay was killed by an exploding petrol can and by 20th September 1947 the party had returned to the UK – the result of which led to me being British rather than South African. Dad worked for Shell all his working life, but the experience of war and long-term POW caused him to suffer later mental problems, which led to early retirement. (He) died on the 31st October 1993 in Tunbridge Wells aged 77.”
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