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Laurie Dorrins' Story: part 1 - Waricon for Story with photo

At about nine I left the house and caught a bus to Bohemia and walked from there to the Catholic Concordia...

Laurie Dorins' Story: Part 2 - The Unknown Soldiericon for Story with photo

After a pleasant coach ride through the countryside with a stop at a delightful old country pub at the...

Laurie Dorins' Story: Part 3 - Franceicon for Story with photo

We obviously had no priority and stopped frequently to allow other trains to pass but we eventually arrived...

Laurie Dorins' Story: Part 4 - Doullens

The spearhead contained seventeen tank battalions with guns varying between 20 and 75 mm. two thousand...

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Laurie Dorins' Story: Part 5 - Capture

At that time I did not know enough about the German forces to know if our captors were Army or Waffen S.S.....

Laurie Dorins' Story: Part 6 - Stalag XXaicon for Story with photo

While we were waiting a German officer was sitting at a table and handing out discharge papers to Polish...

Laurie Dorins' Story: Part 7 - BRUSS, SUMMER, 1940icon for Story with photo

When the German Army chaplain called he asked to see me but our talk was brief as his English was limited....

Laurie Dorins' Story: Part 7a - BRUSSicon for Story with photo

All you needed for an evening in town was a friend who would secure the small door and put the frame back...

Laurie Dorins' Story: Part 8 - Mecikalicon for Story with photo

MECIKAL 1942 SPRING or EARLY SUMMER The camp at Mecikal was about eight km. from Brusy and I think we...

Laurie Dorins' Story: Part 9 - LONG AUTUMN 1942icon for Story with photo

There were about two hundred men in the camp and the English NCO in charge was a very bellicose Tyneside...

Laurie Dorins' Story: Part 10 - NEUE BLUMENAUicon for Story with photo

NEUE BLUMENAU After leaving Long, I think I must have returned to Stalag XXA at Thorn for a few days,...

Laurie Dorins' Story: Part 11 - The Anti-Nazi germansicon for Story with photo

The Polish name for the village was Sypniewo but it had been changed to Wilken's Woods after the German...

Laurie Dorins' Story: Part 11a - SYPNIEWO WILKENWALDEicon for Story with photo

This story is taken from a manuscript by Lawrence Travers Dorins, and has been added to the site with his...

Laurie Dorins' Story: Part 12 - Kamienicon for Story with photo

They went to school at the Home where the lodger taught and when they came home, they would often repeat...

Laurie Dorins' Story: Part 13 - Endmarch

On another day a German soldier came along with two prisoners, one Russian and one British. The Russians...

Laurie Dorins' Story: Part 14 - Freedom

The Americans told us that we must only gradually increase our intake of food On our first day of freedom...

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