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Samuel Malcolm Lewis, Stella Sassienie, Doris Marie Sassienie, Alec Stern.
Alec Stern was in the Tower Hamlets Rifles, which became a unit of the famous Desert Rats during World War two. Fought in the Desert campaign under General Montgomery. His unit was ambushed by the German Afrika Corp in Benghazi Libya and captured Alec with eighteen other soldiers. Transferred to the Italians and held prisoner of War in Italy from 1941 to 1943. Later transferred to Germany and worked as a forced labourer on Germanys railways until liberated by the Americans in 1945..(Photo,
converted to colour by Farley David) Tree branch 1.
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