I have placed Gnr C Wilson’s POW number, 3366, within an extract from my consecutive listing DLI POW numbers below. For the full listing see the index page. Looking at the Red Cross contents list at top right, it’s interesting that Gnr Wilson’s address is listed as Feldpost 19401/A. It’s therefore highly likely that all the DLI men listed below were with him at this early stage of his incarceration in Germany. And those highlighted below as BAB21, Bau und Arbeits Battalion 21, apparently later re-designated workcamp E 793, would still be there or thereabouts with him when he received his November 1943 Red Cross parcel, see the label, right below, addressed to BAB 21, Blechhammer, and subsequently in January 1945 for the long march westwards.

3228 BAB21 Parker, Pte J, 4457983, Bk Watch

3230 21A Thompson, Pte W, 4459341, Bk Watch

3274 20B Lawrenson, Pte H J, 4458395, DLI

3290 3A Dobbin, Fus H, 6975199, R Ir F

3318 4C Birchall, Pte T, 4448715, DLI

3328 8B Newcombe, Pte E W, 4456438, Bk Watch
3329 8B Wiseman, Pte W, 4456072, Bk Watch

3338 344 Scott, Pte J T, 4449277, DLI
3339 20B Paul, Pte R, 4443114, DLI
3340 20B Reynolds, Pte A, 4271264, DLI

3347 4C Stocks, Pte H P, 4692880, DLI

3349 4C Barker, Pte W, 4692766, DLI
3350 4C Binns, Pte J, 4692735, DLI

3352 4C Whitehurst, Pte F, 4692742, DLI
3353 4C Kershaw, Pte R, 4692718, DLI

3359 4C Ingledew, Pte H, 4453307, Bk Watch

3366 BAB21 Wilson, Gnr Christopher, 1509645. 2nd Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery.

3373 344 Saunders, Sgt J, 4435989, PC, a very early pre-war DLI number.

3407 344 O'Connor, L/Cpl M, 4456245, DLI
3408 8B Reay, Pte G A, 4456250, DLI

3433 4C Linday, Pte N H, 4457012, DLI

3435 8B Price, Pte E J, 4034243, DLI

3444 4C Knaggs, Pte L, 4457011, DLI
3445 20B Crawford, Pte V, 4455394, DLI

3453 344 Evitt, Pte J R, 4459365, DLI
3454 20B Allan, Pte J C, 4459338, DLI

3478 BAB21 Lindsay, Pte J, 4459316, DLI
3478 same number as above BAB21 Powers, Pte F W, 4457686, DLI

3486 344 Ferguson, Pte H, 4455613, DLI

3488 BAB21 Hardwick, Cpl O Q, 4444903, DLI

3539 20B Gilliver, Pte G E, 4458010, DLI

3584 20B Finney, Pte J, 4458087, DLI

3626 344 Morell, Pte W, 4454547, DLI

3631 4A Milburn, Pte N, 4444668, DLI

3636 344 Langley, Pte W A, 4455473, DLI

3639 BAB21 Cowens, Pte E, 4459357, DLI


A POW at Bau und Arbeits Battalion 21
Red Cross List Gnr C Wilson,  Feldpost 194001/A
Red Cross List Gnr C Wilson,  BAB21, 1943

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