Sydney Barthorpe Page 10





This group of  photos [ courtesy USAAF ]  were taken from the bomb bay of aircraft on raids over the refinery at Blechhammer.







Sydney was instrumental in removing the rubble and large slabs of concrete using the camp bulldozer when the air raid shelter in BAB21 was hit by a bomb killing thirty men  on Saturday 2nd December 1944.

The details of the bombing and the list of casualties can be found on Mark Hickman's  ' Pegasus Archive'  site.
 Sydney Barthorpe Route
March Route from BAB21 21st January 1945
No Dates. He writes, route of march taken from sightings as we bypassed.
Blechhammer
Cosel - Kozle
Oberglogau - Glogowek
Neustadt - Prudnik
Neisse - Nysa
Waldenburg - Walbrzych
Trauten - Trutnov
Jelenia Gora
Gorlitz - Zgorzelec    Russians beat us to it turned back.
Klodzko
Reichenburg - Liberec  Russians took the Reichenburg pass the night we were due through it.
Aussig - Usti nad Labem
Shonau - Teplice
Brux - Most       Night of the Dresden fire raid
Karlsbad
Eger - Cheb
Hof
Bayreuth     Your jumping off point,  by rail in coal trucks from here through.
Regensburg
Kelheim
Ingolstadt
Landshut
Moosburg

© compiled by Keith Newman




Sydney took part in the TV documentary 'The Long March to Freedom'








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