![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Stalag IVb was a huge camp, holding up to 16,000 men.Sgt Martin was given the POW number 263768 at this time.He was liberated by the advancing Russians in 1945. The camp was situated between the small villages of Burxdorf and Neuburxdorf about 6km east of Mulhberg. Sgt Albert Martin was captured on the Island of Kos when The 1st Durham Light Infantry were over-ran by numerically superior German forces he was held in Stalag IVB which was situated in the Mulhberg area of Germany south of Berlin, north east of Leipzig and north west of Dresden. In 1940 he was off to The Middle East via Hong Kong where he served in General Wavell`s campaign seeing action in Egypt,Syria,Libya, ( Fort Capuzzo, Relief of Tobruk) before moving to Malta during the siege Following on from Malta, Sgt Martin and the 1st D.L.I went to the Dodecanese island of Kos (captured by the Germans at this time and became a POW),after the war he served in Germany, Korea and Malaysia. Where he saw service in China,Shanghai and Tientsin with the 1st DLI. Joined as a boy soldier on 29th July 1930 aged 15 years. Sgt Albert (Spotty) Martin, 1st Btn Durham Light Infantry. ![]() Photograph courtesy of his son Mr Dennis Martin 4447547 Sgt Albert `Spotty` Martin photographed post war in Germany ![]()
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