BLIND PRISONERS
New Zealanders In German Camps To be a prisoner of war in Germany for the duration is/bad enough, but to be a blinded prisoner of war in the same country must be ‘accounted an indescribably rathe-tic situation.’ Sir lan Fraser, the blind chairman of St. Dunstan’s Home for the Blind in England
has notified the chairman of the New Zealand committee for the war services blinded (Mr. D. McPhee), that three, New Zealanders are included in a group of some 20 blinded British prisoners of war in prison camps in Germany. Through the intervention' of Sir lan Fraser arrangements have been made to have all the blinded men placed in the one camp, where, through the help given by the International Red Cross and Y.M.C.A. they are to be taught Braille find typewriting ’ and supplied with extra comforts. ’ . ' The names of the New Zealanders are:
Driver Walter G. Gunn, British pris-oner-of-war No. 23709, Stalag VIIIB, Germany. Next-of-kin, father, Geo. Dunn,' P.O. Box No. 7, Mataura. Private Samuel G. Schofield. British prisoner-of-war No. 39487, Hildburghausen, Stalag IX C. Germany. Next-of-kin, father, Thos. Schofield, Te Puke. Sgmn. Thos. R. H. Wood, British prisoner-of-war No. 39486, Hildburghausen, Stalag IX C, Germany. Next-of-kin, mother, Mrs. Nellie Wood, 17 Chambers Street, North-East Valley, Dunedin.
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Camp News, Volume 3, Issue 130, 10 July 1942, Page 6
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