ERNEST PRIESTLEY

[Guest MERT01]

HAVING RECENTLY LOST MY GRANDFATHER I WOULD BE VERY INTERESTED TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT HIS TIME AS A POW, ALL I KNOW IS HE WAS MARCHED THROUGH FRANCE AND ONTO POLAND AND HE WAS STABBED IN THE ARM WITH A BAYONET.MY GRANDADS NAME WAS ERNEST PRIESTLEY.

ANY INFORMATION WOULD BE APPRECIATED

CHRIS PRIESTLEY

[Guest heather 9a]

hi there i'm sorry i dont have any info about your grandfather but i have been moving house and i discovered my grandfather's navy box with his papers from the 1914 1918 war he served aboard hms victory and he was wounded in beaumont hamel france on november 13th 1916 i was just wondering if your grandfather was on the same ship i have been trying to get info on the victory and i discovered this site and it has proved to be very interesting

[Terry Denham]

HMS Victory was the name for the shorebase at Portsmouth (where the preserved HMS Victory is located). Therefore the reference to 'Victory' will relate to his time ashore.

All shore establishments were named after ships as the Naval Discipline Act only applied to ships' crews and so this ruse was a means to get around the problem.

[Amberden]

My father was also a POW in WW2 and was one of a huge number of men who were captured before Dunkirk. This huge column of men was marched into Germany and Poland where they were sent to various POW camps. If you have your fathers service number or his POW number the International Red Cross in Geneva will supply you with details of his POW records as they have them. It does take a while but in my fathers case was worth the wait.