Grandfather's POW transfer card to Colditz

Pictures of my Dutch grandfather's POW transfer card to Oflag VIIIC Colditz.

He was at Colditz until 1943, when Dutch prisoners were transferred further East.

He was actually an officer in the Dutch colonial army in Indonesia. Luckily, he was on "home" leave with my grandmother and mother when the Germans invaded. Luckily, because it was the Germans who captured him, not the Japanese. None of his colleagues or their families in the Indies when the Japanese invaded survived...

u/Regulid — 6 days ago

Capture of French 105th Line Infantry Regiment's Eagle by Captain Alexander Kennedy Clark (later Clark-Kennedy) of the 1st Royal Dragoons

u/Regulid — 14 days ago