
SHER Abraham (Abe)
South African Army PoW Born Cape Town South Africa 9 May 1918 Died Sydney NSW 29 August 2022
Service No: 72889. 1940 Natal Mounted Rifles, North Africa. Then 3rd Transvaal Scottish Regiment, then Transvaal Horse Artillery Prisoner or War, Tobruk 1942 to Italy (ship Mon Viso), Bari, Lucca, Gravina. 1943 to Germany Muelberg Stalag 8B. then Tschausch Krgf Arb-Kdo Sudetenland Czechoslovakia excavating open coal quarry, alongside the huge Herman Goring Treibstoffewerke AG. Brux heavy daylight bombing from May 1944. In 1998, he migrated to Australia and joined Highgate. Highgate Golden Oldie.