| Barbed
Wire Memories of Stalag 383 |
The Men
Some People may be mentioned more than once.
| Kriegies: | ||
| M.N. McKibbin (author of the book Barbed Wire: Memories of Stalag 383) | ||
| Bert Gilbert | ||
| Alfred Tuck | ||
| Frank Moore | ||
| Jim Tyre (Australian) | ||
| John Newby (Liverpool)(ex lorry driver) | ||
| Charley Patterson (New Zealand gunner)(ex shipping clerk) | ||
| Fred Perry (Royal Engineer) | ||
| Jack and Bill Welch (brothers)(Sergeants Rifle Brigade) - made escape attempt | ||
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| Major Neal (Senior Medical Officer) | ||
| David MacKenzie S.Q.M.S. (camp leader) | ||
| Terry Daler (camp wrestler) | ||
| Jakey Ross (camp boxer) | ||
| Pop Gilbey (ex Policeman) | ||
| Simon called "Kitehawk" | ||
| Bill Spink (captured at Salonika) | ||
| Mr. Boswick (camp rabbit keeper) | ||
| Carl Menti (Romanos) | ||
| Arthur Dallimore (Dal)(Australian artist) | ||
| Alan Burford (5 Company)(camp magician) | ||
| Gilbert Horrabin (9 Company Hut 28) | ||
| John Moore (9 Company Hut 28)(Aussie radio announcer) | ||
| Mick Moore (Lancashire)(ex bus driver)(Mart capitalist/businessman) | ||
| Topper Brown (Marter) | ||
| Lawrence "Talkie" Turkington (Stalag bookie, showman and auctioneer) | ||
| Diamond Jim (Maori)(Stalag gambler) | ||
| Messrs. Hodges and Chase (camp photographers) | ||
| Bill Spink (camp verboten radio operator) | ||
| Sergt. Miles-Osborne | ||
| Jock | ||
| Dennis Whiteley (camp band leader) | ||
| Hugh Cameron (camp m.c.) | ||
| Davie Laird (camp band leader) | ||
| Spike Keble (camp band leader) | ||
| Dave Shearer (camp dance master) | ||
| Frank Felix (captured at Salonkia) | ||
| Teddy Laws (camp actor) | ||
| Sam Scrivens (camp boxer) | ||
| Jock MacKenna (camp boxer) | ||
| Snowy Wright (camp wrestler) | ||
| Duggie Thwaites (Aussie)(camp champion wrestler) | ||
| Jimmy Seed (camp gym expert) | ||
| Arthur Bennett (mart owner and bookie) | ||
| Tim Madden (Simple Simon)(mart owner and bookie) | ||
| Jack Lindsay (editor of camp magazine Spectator) | ||
| Jim Welch (cartoonist of camp magazine Spectator) | ||
| John Rymer (camp symphony orchestra musician) | ||
| Ben Sorrell (camp symphony orchestra musician) | ||
| Bob Jarvis (Aussie)(professional actor) | ||
| Rob Teather (character actor) | ||
| Sergt. Bill Eadie (actor) | ||
| Bert Harris (actor) | ||
| Stan Hawkins (actor) | ||
| Teddy Laws (actor) | ||
| Bernard Cockroft (actor) | ||
| Stan Long (actor) | ||
| Robin Owen (professional actor) | ||
| Terence Cook (actor) | ||
| Jack Harris (Aussie)(comedian) | ||
| Jimmy Duncan (actor) | ||
| Dave Tulip (actor) | ||
| Don "Pinkie" Smith (actor) | ||
| Sam Brierley (actor) | ||
| Taffy Sanders (actor) | ||
| John MacKay (actor) | ||
| Elwyn Jones (actor) | ||
| William Kemp | ||
| John Mallory (club member) | ||
| John Hamilton (club member) | ||
| "Basher" McLean (Gaelic Society) | ||
| Cpl. Nogan | ||
| Stan Long | ||
| Fred Parker | ||
| - Fincham (Secretary of the Perth Club) | ||
| Jackie Ross | ||
| "Dodger" Rodgers (Burns Club maestro) | ||
| "Yank" Johnson (Talks and Debates circle) | ||
| Basil Marin (taught French and Spanish) | ||
| S/Sergt. "Sammy" Mattatia | ||
| John McTigue | ||
| Roy Veryard (sports school) | ||
| Sergt. A.E. White "Blanco" (Secretary of St. Johns Ambulance Brigade)(escapee) | ||
| C.S.M. Savage (bee keeper) | ||
| Padre Grant (bee keeper) | ||
| Jock Kane (war reviewer) | ||
| Edgar, Marten, Lindsay, MacMasters, Mallory, Ross (speakers) | ||
| Arthur Hill (Secretary of the Talk and Debates Circle) | ||
| Keith "Scoop" Hooper (Aussie)(journalist) | ||
| "Froggie" Bourne | ||
| "Sailor" Brown (Aussie)(PT instructor) | ||
| Bert Gilbert | ||
| John (hid in the hills in Crete for a year before capture) | ||
| Captain France (M.O.) | ||
| Sgt. Honeyset | ||
| "Cracker" King | ||
Escapees: |
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| Michael McCallen (R.A.S.C. Kings Regiment)(escape committee) | ||
| B.Q.M.S. Norman Drummond (escapee)(managed to get 450kms to Vienna by train dressed as a Professor and his wife in May 1944) | ||
| Corp. Eddie Freestone (escapee)(managed to get 450kms to Vienna by train dressed as a Professor and his wife in May 1944) | ||
| Irvine Poppa (Palestinian)(assisted escapees) | ||
| Keith Gadd (assisted escapees) | ||
| Harry Morgan (assisted escapees) | ||
| Stan Hawkins (assisted escapees)(tailor) | ||
| Tubby Jaggers (assisted escapees)(stall owner) | ||
| Jack Cooper (assisted escapees) | ||
| Geordie Nicol (assisted escapees)(prepared documents) | ||
| Sergt. McDougall (3rd Hussars)(assisted escapees)(prepared documents) | ||
| Charlie Kober (assisted escapees)(prepared documents)(Gothic scriptor) | ||
| Bill Jones (3rd Hussars)(assisted escapees)(made official stamps for forged papers)(wood carver) | ||
| Steve Young (Aussie) | ||
| Ted Paton (Aussie) | ||
| "Topper" Brown (escape committee) | ||
| Badgie Opie (escapee)(tunnelling engineer) | ||
| Sam Floyd (escapee)(tunnelling engineer) | ||
| Alan Clarke (digger) | ||
| Alan Wiggins (Man of confidence) | ||
| Bill Baxter (escape committee) | ||
| Ivan Stevens (Chief Scout Club member)(assisted in escapes) | ||
| Major Brook Moore (Aussie M.O.)(assisted in escapes) | ||
| Sergt. H.G. MacKay (K.R.R.C.)(assisted in escapes)(tailor) | ||
| Corpl. Ben Woolsey (Kiwi gunner)(assisted in escapes(tailor) | ||
| Jack Hamer (assisted in escapes)(Made maps) | ||
| Ted Hardman (Black Watch)(assisted in escapes)(made maps) | ||
| Jimmy Davies (assisted in escapes)(made compasses) | ||
| Geordie Nicol (assisted in escapes)(forged documents) | ||
| Tom Hodges (photographer)(assisted in escapes) | ||
| S/Sergt. Thomas (M.I. room Chief)(assisted in escapes) | ||
| Geoff Hosking (Aussie)(escapes enthusiast) | ||
| John Hamilton (assisted in escapes) | ||
| Sergt.-Major Baxter (assisted in escapes) | ||
| Eddie Ramage (escapee) | ||
| Bill Hake (escapee) | ||
| Eric Domini (escapee)(16th man in the Spring Handicap) | ||
| Jimmy Davies | ||
| Chief Middlemore (escape committee) | ||
| Tuggle Heath (tunneller) | ||
| Phil Meikle (tunneller) | ||
| Corpl. Alan Morrison (A.I.F.)(tunneller) | ||
| Fred Stuckey (Kiwi)(tunneller) | ||
| W/O Tadeusz Baronowski (Russian/Polish Officer and Battle of Britain pilot)(tunneller) | ||
| George Beeson (escapee)(dressed up as German Feldwebel) | ||
| Ginger Suggit (escapee)(dressed up as German Felwebel) | ||
| Lennard and Wilkinson (escapees)(caught at Munich) | ||
| Tuggles Heath | ||
| Slim Somerville (Kiwi)(escapee)(teamed up with guerillas in Greece before capture) | ||
| Old Mac "MacKenzie) (Stalag 383 camp leader) | ||
| Doug Farley (attempted escape by posing as a French pow) | ||
| Topper Brown (attempted escape by posing as a French pow) | ||
| George beeson (attempted escape by posing as a French pow) | ||
| Ted Hardman (attempted escape by posing as a French pow) | ||
| Ned Lynch (assisted in escape attempts) | ||
| Bob Jordan (assisted in escape attempts) | ||
| Steve Young (Aussie)(escapee) | ||
| Ted Paton (Aussie)(escapee) | ||
| B.S.M. Flood | ||
Escape Routes: |
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| Hut 39 Eight Company | ||
| Hut 1 Nine Company | ||
| Latrine (watchtower) | ||
| Two Company Spaniards room | ||
| One Company | ||
| Six Company (washhouse) | ||
| Room 263 Five Company | ||
Perpetual Escapees: |
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| Fred Stuckey (Hut 201) | ||
| Ginger Suggit (Hut 201) | ||
| George Beeson (Hut 201) | ||
| Archie McKee (Hut 201) | ||
| Bert Howe (Hut 201) | ||
| Bob Jordan (Hut 201) | ||
| Ned Lynch (Hut 201) | ||
| Ted Hardmann (Hut 201) | ||
| Alex Shelton (Hut 201) | ||
| Les Murname (Hut 170) | ||
| Eddie Ramage (Hut 170) | ||
| Jock Ryan (Hut 170) | ||
| "Winton"/"Darwin" Ryan (Hut 170) | ||
| Fred Courtney (Hut 170) | ||
| Bob Wilkie (Hut 170) | ||
| Hughie Grieg (Hut 170) | ||
| Sid Buttons (Hut 170) | ||
| Bill Hake (Hut 170) | ||
| Ted Ainslow (Hut 170) | ||
| Lofty Williams (Aussie)(Hut 171) | ||
| Eric Domini (Hut 171) | ||
| Percy Sekine (Hut 171) | ||
| Dick Pacey (Hut 171) | ||
| Geoff Spence (Hut 171) | ||
| Henry Hall (Hut 171) | ||
| Tuggles Heath (Hut 171) | ||
| Bill Opie (Hut 171) | ||
Wire Cutters: |
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| Tim Madden (helper) | ||
| Michael McCallen (awarded the B.E.M. for his attempts) | ||
| Paddy McKenna | ||
| John MacKay | ||
| Bill Baxter | ||
| Geoff Hosking | ||
| Jack Hamer | ||
| Alan Clarke | ||
| Eddie Ramage | ||
| Reg Stacey | ||
| Geoff Spence (Kiwi) | ||
| Dick Pacey | ||
Other People: |
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| Mr. Eric Berg (Swedish Y.M.C.A.) | ||
| Duncan Sandys | ||
| Charles Loebel (Jewish musician and composer) | ||
| Captain France | ||
| Wally Whitehead (Scottish/French helped escapees) | ||
| Marcel, John, Charlie and Morris (French pows) | ||
Germans/Jerries/the Huns: |
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| Toadstool (guard) | ||
| Mr. Moto (guard) | ||
| The Jeep (guard) | ||
| Kommandant | ||
| "Fritz" | ||
| Herr Hauptmann (guard) | ||
| Powder Puff (Strafe officer) | ||
| "Hamburg Harry" (Stalag civvie rackateer died in airraid March 1945) | ||
| "Chisel" Hempel (guard) | ||
| "Smiler" (posten with anti-war views) | ||
| Security Officer Blum | ||
| Anna (factory worker)(helped in an escape attempt)(had a son who died on The Bismark) | ||
| Gertrude and "Hairpin" (factory owners) | ||
| Catholic Sisters (hospital workers) | ||
| Sandra (Polish)(factory worker) |
Music : Bless 'Em All
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