Date: 14/08/2021
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Private Alfred Holbrook
815569 Private Alfred Holbrook was attested into the Royal Artillery in 1930 (image taken whilst in the RA) before transferring to the Royal Army Medical Corps on 29 September 1934. On 2 June 1941 he was serving in the R.A.M.C. attached to No.7 Commando and was reported missing during operations at Crete, later found to be a prisoner of war at Stalag 4B.
His son Mark adds "He was part of the BEF and was evacuated off the beach at Dunkirk. He was then captured at Crete and spent the rest of the war as a labourer for German road and railway building. He was liberated by the Russians. He and others hid in the nearby coal mine after the Germans had fled the advance, deserting the camp."
