Dean Jack

NAME Dean Jack
RANK IN GREECE

Lance Sergeant

ON DEMOB

Lance Sergeant

SERIAL NUMBER SERVICE

2092510

PRISONER

2007 (2401)?

UNIT IN GREECE

292 Field Coy, Royal Engineers (46th North Staffs) TA

ACTIVE

 

IN GREECE

Nov 1940  – April 1941

METHOD OF DEPARTURE

 

Captured at Battle of Corinth Canal  26th April 1941
POW CAMPS

 

IN GREECE

Corinth & Salonika

IN OCCUPIED EUROPE

Presumed initially Stalag XVIIIA or XVIIID, then Stalag 383 Hohenfels Bavaria

NOTES

Source:  family communication and 2nd WW Experience Centre

Same Unit as Alan Slocombe, Ken Millington, Ernie Carroll, Arthur Dale & CO Capt Malcolm Young

See also “The Wrath of the Gods” by Yvonne Speak

STORY

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

Jack Dean Foreword

Jack Dean Pre Greece

Jack Dean Greek Campaign

Jack Dean Post Greece

We are also pleased to include a copy of the account of life in Stalag 383 as described in “Barbed Wire – Memories of Stalag 383” by M.N. McKibbin and illustrated by A. G. Dallimore. Please click on the links below which will take you to the relevant PDF file.

Barbed Wire: Part One

Barbed Wire: Part Two

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