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selwynfroggitt
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Wouned in battle and Service Records ?
« on: Wednesday 21 October 09 18:01 UTC (UK) »
My man was in the Seaforth Highlanders and then with the 51st Highlanders who were captured at St Valery... he spent the rest of the war up to 1943 in various Stalags until repatriated suffering from TB..
The family disagree about wether or not he was wounded in the battle and some refer to scars on his back and shoulders..
I have his Service Record and he is shown as missing in the battle and nothing untill the Red Cross inform of him being a POW.
Nothing in the record is mentioned about wounds and this has been taken by some to suggest that he was not wounded..
But  if he was hurt in the battle and captured by Rommells forces then the treatment would have been administered by the Germans...
Am I correct in assuming that the treatment  would then not appear on his service record. and its absence means nothing.
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stuartroxy
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Re: Wouned in battle and Service Records ?
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 21 October 09 18:37 UTC (UK) »
I believe that returning POW were interviewed; the results are in the WO 344 series of documents in the NA.  I think that individuals were asked to confirm (amongst other things!) whether or not they were wounded.  I can't firm as I have yet to see my relative's  questionnaire.  The NA charges £8.50.

Goos luck,

stuartroxy
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selwynfroggitt
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Re: Wouned in battle and Service Records ?
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 22 October 09 09:15 UTC (UK) »
Thank you Stuart,
.. Now that you mention it  I did meet the author of One God Too Many Devils who was a POW with the Japanese... and I think that he said that when the POWs were repatriated they were asked if they were ill or well or something similar.... if ill or admitted they were wounded they went into a hospital but if they said they were OK they went home...most did not want to delay going home and said they were fine even if they were not
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