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Originally Posted by Roddy1011
Hi to Sarah and everyone else on this hunt !
Sarah - ref Grandad Parker as a POW...I suspect the book/list of POWs you were looking at was 'POWs of the British Army - 1939 to 1945' pub by Hayward. In it an EL Parker is listed as a Gunner (meb of Royal Artillery) - Army # 900773 - POW camp was Stalag 8B & POW # as 55136 (given to him by Germans).
If the family story is that he served with an Armoured Unit in N Africa, he was probably a member of an Artillery unit attached to an Armoured (tank) Brigade or Division. The two main contenders are probably 7th Armoured Division or 6th Armoured Division. The former fought all the way fm Egypt to Tunisia, while the latter only fought in Tunisia.
Roddy de Normann
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Sarah,
This man is proving to be extremely elusive isn't he
Roddy's answer raises a few thoughts in my little tiny.
If this POW, E.L. Parker, is listed as a Gunner then it does mean that he was in the Artillery and not the Tank Corps. I would have thought that if he enlisted in Canada he would have been listed as R.C.A as against R.A, if a Corps or Regiment is mentioned.
If he was Artillery attached to an Armoured Unit, maybe an Order of Battle somewhere will narrow things down a little further.
Paul.