Burns Tom

NAME Burns Thomas
RANK IN GREECE

Ambulance Driver/Medical Orderly

ON DEMOB

 

SERIAL NUMBER SERVICE

N/A

PRISONER

N/K – or N/A if non-combatant?

UNIT IN GREECE

Friends Ambulance Unit

ACTIVE

 

IN GREECE

31 March – mid May 1941

METHOD OF DEPARTURE

 

Taken prisoner whilst attending to wounded in Kalamata after surrender
POW CAMPS

 

IN GREECE

Corinth & Salonika

IN OCCUPIED EUROPE

Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf

NOTES

1   Prior to Greece, Tom Burns had been on ‘active service’ in Finland and Norway in 1940.

2   Repatriated in December 1943 as attendant medical staff accompanying severely disabled PoWs.

3   See also archive of Ronald Joynes & Oswald Dick, fellow FAU “Friends”

STORY

We are pleased to share with you the story of Tom Burns from the information we have in our Archive. Please click on the headings/links below which will take you to the relevant PDF file.

Tom Burns Foreword

Tom Burns Pre Greece

Tom Burns Greek Campaign

Tom Burns Post Greece

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