Medal group and POW Tag and paperwork to possible escapee from Stalag XVIIID

Medal group and POW Tag and paperwork to possible escapee from Stalag XVIIID (image 1/1)
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Medal group (1939-45 Star, Africa Star and War Medal) and POW Tag (Stamped Fontstalag 306) and paperwork to possible escapee from Stalag XVIIID - I purchased this group quite recently but havent the time or inclination to continue the research - Here is what i have found so far :- 1. The Paperwork Stated the medals were issued in 1946 to 2195968 A.E. Orton who it appears was in the Royal Engineers (as the paperwork was sent from there) 2. Stalag XVIIID otherwise known as Stalag 306 was a German Prisoner of War camp at Maribor (German: Marburg an der Drau) in what is now Slovenia . It opened in the spring or early summer of 1941, operating until the end of the war. 3. By July 1941 Stalag XVIII-D contained nearly 4,500 British and Commonwealth prisoners captured in Greece and Crete. Conditions initially were very poor, with more than 1,000 men accommodated in tents while huts were being constructed. There was an outbreak of typhus in early 1942. However the situation improved as the war went on. 4. Escapes assisted by Yugoslav Partisans became increasingly common, with most escapers being led south to the Partisan base and airfield at Semič in Bela Krajina. In August 1944, the largest mass rescue of POWs of the war in Europe took place when 105 Allied prisoners from a work camp administered by Stalag XVIII-D were freed by Partisans read more
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