Sharpin Eddie

NAME Sharpin Edmund F (‘Eddie’)
RANK IN GREECE

Driver

ON DEMOB

 

SERIAL NUMBER SERVICE PRISONER

2288

UNIT IN GREECE

RASC, British Air Force in Greece, Y Force, Middle East

ACTIVE

 

IN GREECE

Oct/Nov 1940 – 28/29 April 1941

METHOD OF DEPARTURE

 

Wounded and captured at Kalamata during the battle
POW CAMPS

 

IN GREECE

Athens (hospital) & Salonika

IN OCCUPIED EUROPE

Stalag XVIIIA, Wolfsberg

ArbKdo at Schladming + others, as was Jack Swinnerton

NOTES

“TTWWH” Chap 15 & 31;

Hijacked a railway train to get out to the approaching US liberating forces

STORY

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Eddie Sharpin Foreword

Eddie Sharpin Greek Campaign

Eddie Sharpin Post Greece

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