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I was interested to read about Canadian General Hospitals. My father was Sgt. William Augustine Campbell RCAMC. He and his six brothers from Montreal served in WW2 and all returned safely to Montreal after the war. I have been unable to find anything about Bill's wartime exploits despite having wri...

I was interested to read about Canadian General Hospitals. My father was Sgt. William Augustine Campbell RCAMC. He and his six brothers from Montreal served in WW2 and all returned safely to Montreal after the war. I have been unable to find anything about Bill's wartime exploits despite having wri...

motown01 wrote: ↑

Thu Dec 26, 2019 1:31 am

Thanks for the info. His last name was Gillard. I don't see his name on the roll but I do know he was transferred from No. 20 Cdn General Hospital to this division in April 1945.

Is this him? On the Wounded List in May 1945

Your welcome Edward. If you have any other questions or would like us to search for anything else, please just let us know. We’ll do the best we can to try and find info for you

Have a wonderful Christmas Edward and your family.......and a Very Happy New Year

This is wonderful news. If you need anything else, or have more questions we can help with, please let us know. To you and your friend, have a great Christmas and Happy New Year And I want to add, Great work Phil on finding the “main documents” for this discovery......I was pretty sure that we would...

Info on Stalag X1 A, which these documents show he was held in Stalag XI-A (also known as Stalag 341) was a German World War II prisoner-of-war camp (Stammlager), located just to the east of the village of Altengrabow and in the south of Dörnitz in Saxony-Anhalt, about south-west of Berlin. Camp his...

And a document for his son?

I think this may be his emigration records to Canada

Excellent work Phil......good find on all the documents. Hopefully they will be able to confirm if this is the right man.......Also, documents indicated him relocating to Canada.

In the past, I have tried to do research on Allied POW’s with the German Government. Their cryptic answer to the inquiry was “Do to Allied Bombing in Germany during WW2, no records exist”. I also check with the Red Cross at that time. Their answer was, archival research is the “last priority” of the...