Let's compare: The SAR and the Polish 10th MRR

[John McGillivray]

There are some stats given in Terry Copp’s book “Field of Fire’ in Appendix D. Between the period 18 July to 8 August, 1944 the 2nd Canadian Corps handled a total of 1,114 prisoners of war. Below is shown a break down of PW’s taken by 2nd Canadian Corps from 8 August to 23 August. So this gives a total of 18,312 PW's for the period of 18 July to 23 August.

1 SS Panzer Division------------------------- 169
2 SS Panzer Division--------------------------- 21
2 Panzer Division----------------------------- 765
9 SS Panzer Division-------------------------- 92
9 Panzer Division -----------------------------140
10 SS Panzer Division ------------------------196
12 SS Panzer Division ------------------------206
17 SS Panzer Grenadiers Division -----------21
21 Panzer Division---------------------------- 579
116 Panzer Division ---------------------------86
Panzer Lehr -------------------------------------27
48 Infantry Division ----------------------------1
84 Infantry Division --------------------------581
85 Infantry Division ------------------------1,527
89 Infantry Division ------------------------1,566
243 Infantry Division ---------------------------7
245 Infantry Division ---------------------------1
266 Infantry Division--------------------------- 3
271 Infantry Division------------------------ 499
272 Infantry Division-------------------------282
275 Infantry Division ------------------------165
276 Infantry Division------------------------ 793
277 Infantry Division---------------------- 1,616
326 Infantry Division ------------------------670
331 Infantry Division ------------------------106
352 Infantry Division ------------------------131
353 Infantry Division------------------------ 418
363 Infantry Division------------------------ 879
708 Infantry Division-------------------------- 32
2 Parachute Division---------------------------- 9
3 Parachute Division -------------------------994
Army, Corps, GHQ Troops -----------------815
Artillery Units ---------------------------------322
Flak Units --------------------------------------843
Werfer Units -----------------------------------234
Russians, Poles, etc. ------------------------1,111
Miscellaneous------------------------------- 1,291
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Total prisoners--------------------------- 17,198