Arthur Douglas

NAME Arthur Douglas
RANK IN GREECE

Driver/Gunner

ON DEMOB

 

SERIAL NUMBER SERVICE

890650

PRISONER

5567

UNIT IN GREECE

106th Lancashire Hussars (Yeomanry) Regt RHA

ACTIVE

 

IN GREECE

March – 26 April 1941 Greece;

May 1941 in Crete

METHOD OF DEPARTURE Evacuated Navplion, HMS Calcutta;

Captured in Crete

POW CAMPS

 

IN GREECE

Salonika

IN OCCUPIED EUROPE

Stalag XVIIIA, Wolfsberg

NOTES

Author of “Forty Men & Eight Horses”; also “Desert Watch”

To Greece from North Africa in the same unit as Jack Swinnerton & Frank Moss – see their Archives for more detail.

In PoW Work Camps at Knittelfeld, Murau, Stadl & Sankt Lambrecht with Dai Davies MM OBE (author of “All for Freedom”

STORY

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Douglas Arthur Foreword

Douglas Arthur Pre Greece

Douglas Arthur Greek Campaign

Douglas Arthur Post Greece

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