Simmonds John (Jack)

NAME Simmonds John (‘Jack’) Graham
RANK IN GREECE

Private

ON DEMOB

 

SERIAL NUMBER SERVICE

6196477

PRISONER

3840

UNIT IN GREECE

KRRC

ACTIVE

 

IN GREECE

17 March – April 1941

METHOD OF DEPARTURE

 

Captured 12th April (Florina Gap?)

 

POW CAMPS

 

IN GREECE

Dulag 183 Salonika

IN OCCUPIED EUROPE

Stalag XVIIID, Marburg;

Stalag XVIIIA, Wolfsberg

NOTES 

Source: family contact (G/S Paul Harris)

“My grandfather celebrated his 100th birthday in February 2020 and his 101st birthday this year. He was best friends with an Australian called Leo Andrews who, after the war married my granddad’s niece and they moved to Australia to start a new life. He doesn’t really talk much about the war. He escaped just before the Russians arrived, he has said and him Leo and an American guy who he can’t remember managed to get lifts to get to Berlin where they met the Americans forces.”

STORY

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Jack Simmonds Foreword

Jack Simmonds Pre Greece

Jack Simmonds Greek Campaign

Jack Simmonds Post Greece

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