Behind the wire: the road to Oflag VII-B Eichstätt: the PoW diaries of Captain John Blomfield Dixon, 1940-45
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Contents Acknowledgements Abbreviations Translations Introduction ix X xiii XV 1 Chapter 1 The Early Years Chapter 2 Very Basic Training 12 Chapter 3 With the BEF: A Diary of Combat 17 Chapter 4 Entering Captivity 31 Chapter 5 Life at Laufen 41 Chapter 6 1941: Another Bloody Year - A Killing in the Camp 52 Chapter 7 Punishment at Posen and Thorn 60 Chapter 8 Biberach and Murder at the Railway Station 69 Chapter 9 The Move to Warburg - Oflag VI-b 84 Chapter 10 1942: A Year of Change 92 Chapter 11 A Permanent Home in Eichstätt - Oflag VII-b 105 Chapter 12 The Swiss Legation: An Initial Report 114 Chapter 13 1943: Lost Comrades and The Barbed Wire Theatre 123 Chapter 14 Escaping Eichstätt 134 Chapter 15 The Murder of Poole and Duncan 146
viii Behind the Wire: The Road to Oflag VII-B Eichstätt Chapter 16 Chapter 17 1945: The Allied Advance and the March to Moosburg - A War Crime 154 The Return Home and a Forbidden Love 172 Appendix I: Nominal Roll: Members of‘C’ Squadron, East Riding Yeomanry, 1940 179 Appendix II: Officers and Men ofthe East Riding Yeomanry KIA or Do IK with the BEF 181 Appendix III: Senior British Medical Officers’ Report on the Attack of 14 April 1945 183 Appendix IV: Roll ofHonour: Officers Killed and Wounded at Eichstatt, 14 April 1945 185 Bibliography Index 188 189
Diaries and letters from service personnel who were held captiv e throughout the Second World War survive in quite large numbers, but rarely are they so detailed as those o! John Blomtield Dixon, whose home was in the 1 lertlordshire town ot Ware. I laving joined the Territorial Army in 1938, he soon found himself hurried through officer training and, with the outbreak of the Second World War, being commissioned as a subaltern, attached to the Fast Riding Yeomanry. Tollowing his death in 2013, his family were bequeathed a series ot scrapbooks, folders, maps, photographs and documents, along with a small pile ol well-worn booklets, revealing his voracious appetite in describing his training, hie and death during the retreat to Dunkirk, his humiliating capture by the enemy al the culmination ol the Battle of (kissel and the long arduous journey through a series ol Oftizierslagers], which would, ultimately, lead him to Oflag VHB, which was located in the Bavarian town of Eichstätt. Complimented by a scries ol annotated photographs, some ol which have not been seen betorc, this book provides an insight to the long tedious days, miserable lood shortages, his thoughts tor home, the woman he desperately loved, his hatred for both captors and captives, the killing of his comrades both on and oil the battlet ield, the tireless efforts and disasters ot escape, and his passion tor the theatrical lite, which was borne out on dusty prison camp stages, all ol which provide a picture ot his experiences and emotions. His views and opinions on the wild and inaccurate rumours, as well as
propaganda relayed through both the German and Allied press, paint an oft distorted picture ol the war’s progression at that time. The Normandy landings in June 1944 brought a sudden realisation that freedom max' soon become a reality. I lowever, the frustration and anxiety ol anticipated release culminate in a terrible disaster al the very moment liberty appears upon the horizon. 'This was on 14 April 1945, when the prisoners were machine-gunned Tw U.S. aircraft as thex moved to Moosburg. Fifteen were killed and a further forty-one were wounded. Liberation too brings its own frustrations, borne out in the final diary entries and supplemented by a post-war summary of his long journey home. Combined with a narrative lilted from both official records ol the period, and the recollections ol men who served or were imprisoned with him, the carefully selected entries not only provide one ol the most detailed pictures ot lite at Oflag \Ί IB, but also serve to memorialise the service ol John Blomfield Dixon and those with whom he shared his incarceration. |
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