Herbie's Book Gunner Herbert Louis Mills 129 Battery, 'The Manx
Regiment' (15th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery) The 'Manx
Regiment' was raised from men from the Isle of Man. They were captured
at Souda Bay, Crete, in 1941 and held prisoner of war at Lamsdorf, Poland in
Stalag VIIIb also see lamsdorf
website and Manx Regiment Museum website
Herbie had a
photo album and a record of the march from the camp to eventual freedom,
including photos from home and in the camp Images of the book are here Larger
images here
Transcription
of the march to eventual freedom is here
Names
and addresses found written in the book are here
Some cine film of the Manx Regiment Homecoming arriving in Douglas is here
If
you can add any information or names to the content here please contact me
I
have found a very helpful website to translate place names between what they
were in Czech and what the Germans called them here
The points on
the map are the ones I can identify from the names in the book, there may be
some which are incorrect and many I have yet to identify, View Untitled
in a larger map