NAM.2002-11-730-1

Identity tag, nd. Worn by Capt Timothy Hall, when he was a Lieutenant of the Royal Engineers, 1st Parachute Sqn, 1944-1946. Made of metal. Stamped, ' Stalag VII/ A/ Nr. 140147'. Relates to Capt Hall's time in a prisoner of war camp, 1944-1945. Hall was captured at Arnhem. Hall was commissioned in the Royal Engineers on 9 May 1943 and made a war substantive lieutenant on 9 November 1943. He was wounded after parachuting into Arnhem (1944). Initially treated by 181 Airlanding Field Ambulance in the Asylum at Wolfheze, Hall was sent to St Elisabeth hospital. He was admitted to Juliana Hospital, Apeldoorn, on 27 September 1944. His injury in the admissions register is described as Hemothorax, left. He remained there until 30 October when he was sent to Stalag VIIA at Moosburg.

World War Two, POWs Germany (1939-1945)