Hello all,
I am trying to obtain details of the below named airman, he was in the RAF and was also a POW in Europe with my grandfather.
Stanley Hewitt
RAF Sergeant
Service number I think is 1168511
POW number 162.
Any details on Squadron, aircrew, missions, when he was shot down camps etc would be of great help.
Regards
Ian
By: Reckless Rat - 27th November 2014 at 19:21
Hmm… curly one! Ross McNeil’s PoW lists has a
Hewitt S W B 1168511 RAF
at ‘357’, or Stalag ‘Kopernikus’ at Torun, Poland, but no other information. I see you have been following this one up for a while; is this the source of the service number you quote, or have you confirmed this independently?
ETA:- It seems that in mid-44, the PoW’s from Stalag XXA, or 357 Kopernikus, were moved from Torun to Stalag XIB at Fallingbostel/OERBKE
According to the lists in AIR 78/75, this service number belongs to Stanley William Bert Hewitt
If you can get to TNA, his liberation questionnaire should fill in the gaps:- it will be somewhere in WO 344/142/2.
HTH,
Jeff
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November 27, 2014 at 8:44 am