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Geordie Jackson was with 156 Battalion, stationed in Melton Mowbray in September 1944. He

parachuted into Oosterbeek as part of Operation Market Garden. He was wounded in the action, and

casivacked to the village of Lochem, where a school had been converted into a hospital. When his

wounds had healed he was taken to a Stalag near Khemnitz, from there he was taken with a working

party, to a woodmill in Flossmulle (or similar) in Eastern Germany fairly close to the Czech border. He

was billeted there, under guard, with 20, or so, other Brits. They worked in the woods cutting timber for

the paper mill. He was released at the end of the war, and returned to the UK.

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