F W Daniels

Microfilm copy of his memoir (184pp ts) describing his service as a signaller with the 1/5th Battalion Queen's Royal Regiment in North Africa from May 1942, his capture following an attack on an Italian position in September 1942 and subsequent experiences as a prisoner of war in camps in North Africa, Italy (Capua and Firmo) and, following the September 1943 armistice, in Germany at Eisleben, a satellite camp of Stalag IVD at Torgau where he had to work in a copper mine and where he stayed until liberation in April 1945; also various papers relating to his wartime life and postwar reunions, including copies of the Eisleben POW newspaper 'Snips' (circa 370pp).

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Frederick William Daniels was a thirty year old insurance clerk of Rochester, Kent when he was called up and joined the Queen's Royal Regiment. He served briefly in North Africa before being captured in September 1942 and imprisoned in various camps in Italy and Germany. His papers consist of an account "Round Trip"; the magazine Snips produced by British prisoners at Eisleben mining camp in Saxony; papers relating to the post-war Snips reunions, and other miscellaneous documents including photographs. Daniels' literary flair is evident in the well-written account and in many of the Snips articles which he wrote.