WW2 Combat Medics

[Ken Hughes]

my late uncle was a medical orderly in the nzmc 5th field ambulance in Libya ww2. 20th battalion.
he was captured at belhamid taken to Italy by submarine
and spent time in camps 85,57,and148, then as the allies advanced he was moved to Germany to Lamsdorf camp , then moved across Germany as the Russians advanced and was finaly liberated by the Americans,i still have his usa issue water bottle.
he came home a very changed man,would not talk about his army life at all although at xmass time for a treat he would speak German to the children
we heard through other returned soldiers that he was working as an orderly the whole time while a pow and was highly thought of