Work Camp 1107 L
Work Camp 1107 L |
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Location: Donnersbach
Type of work: labouring
Man of Confidence: Sgt J Luke, Northumberland Hussars
Number of Men: approx. 30
Forename |
Surname |
Rank |
Unit |
POW |
Comments |
| G.A. | Beale | Dvr | RE | 5708 | |
| Danny | Behrman | Dvr | RASC | 7383 | |
| B.J. | Berry | Spr | RE | 5070 | |
| Bowden | |||||
| Reginald J (Peter) | Briggs | Dvr | RASC | 2572 | possible |
| A | Cappleman | Gnr | RA | 5869 | |
| A.H. | Dobson | Dvr | RE | 5690 | |
| Jim | Gaskell | Gnr | RA | 5582 | transf'd to Stalag 383 |
| W.P. | Greatrex | Spr | RE | 5766 | |
| Hanson | |||||
| F | Holden | Spr | RE | 5633 | |
| Hughes | |||||
| Thomas Dudley | Jones | Gnr | RA | 5205 | Carmarthen, Wales; also 11022/GW |
| P | Kellet | Gnr | RA | 5907 | |
| L.C. | Lawler | Gnr | RA | 5920 | |
| Jimmy | Luke | Sgt | RA | 5910 | MOC; Transf'd to Stalag 383 |
| Marshall | |||||
| McIntyre | |||||
| Dennis | Miller | Gnr? | RA? | 5925? | |
| O.R. | Morgan | Pte | 5888 | New Zealand | |
| Morris | |||||
| Ken | O'Kennedy | Sgmn | R Sigs | 5033 | Theatre at 18A |
| C.A. | Remnant | L/Bdr | 5874 | New Zealand | |
| Rowe | |||||
| Thorne | |||||
| Peter | Trodden | Gnr | RA | 5794 | also 47/GW |
| P | Williams | ||||
| J | Wilmot | Spr | RE | 5774 |
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| View of camp | Peter Trodden group | |
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| Danny Behrman group | ||
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| T.D. Jones | Guard with dog | |
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| Danny Behrman | Pete Trodden on right |
"The "Donnersbach" (translation "Thunder stream) was a mountain stream no more than 4 metres wide which ran from Donnersbachwald past the camp and down hill about 8 km. to the village of Donnersbach. The 'L' after 1107 meant that the camp was designated as "Landwirtschaft", or work devoted to the land, farms etc. Well, it wasn't. Wintertime it was gangs of three men, one holding a long drill and the other two belting it with hammers. When the hole was deep enough a local comes over, stuffs it with dynamite and blasts a load of rock to pieces. Summer - pick up the pieces and resurface the road. I never saw a car on it in two years. Camps for this sort of work normally had the GW suffix after their number."
Ken O'Kennedy
The following pictures, of what appears to be a hydroelectric plant under construction, were brought back by two POWs; George Buchanan (2/28th Inf. Bn.) and Peter Trodden (RA). Peter Trodden was held at 1107/L for a time and I naturally assumed that the pictures came from there. However, Ken O'Kennedy doesn't recognise the plant and says that the camp was in a narrow valley, unlike that in the photos. The question is, where was this plant?
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