From Crete to Moosburg

My father's name was Pvt George Edward Malpas of 152 Coy RAOC. I have little information about his detention, he did not talk about it much. He was badly injured while on a working party in Munich during a daylight air raid. He told me he remembered scrambling into a bomb crater on the principle a bomb never hit the same place twice. I think some of his comrades were killed. He was in the camp hospital when it was liberated and felt the Americans saved his life as they had penicillin available. He later had an arm amputated as a result of his injuries.

My father had been captured on Crete. I feel sure the picture showing British, New Zealand and Australian POWs from Crete and Salonica (July 1941) includes my father in the POWs centrally.

 Source:

• E-mails by Chris Malpas, Norwich, England, to Moosburg Online, August 2005