Stalag IX-C Bad Sulza

Bad Sulza, Germany

Stalag IX-C was a Wehrmacht-run prisoner-of-war camp for other ranks, with its main compound sited at Bad Sulza in Thuringia, roughly midway between Erfurt and Leipzig. It opened in February 1940, initially receiving Polish soldiers captured during the German invasion of Poland, and grew rapidly after the fall of France in 1940 brought large contingents of Belgian, French, and British prisoners — among them men of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and Gordon Highlanders taken at Dunkirk. Over the course of the war the camp absorbed further waves: Yugoslav prisoners in 1941, British and Commonwealth troops from the North Africa and Italian campaigns in 1943, British and Canadian airborne soldiers captured during Operation Market Garden at Arnhem in late 1944, and American troops taken in the Battle of the Bulge. The Pegasus Archive records that more than a hundred RAF airmen were held at the camp at various points, though the Germans initially refused to acknowledge their status and promised — often without delivering — their transfer to Luftwaffe-administered Stalag Luft camps. Prisoners were dispersed across some 1,700 labour detachments, the largest working in potassium and salt mines south of Mühlhausen, with others assigned to stone quarries and a camp shoe factory; a substantial British- and Canadian-staffed military hospital, Reserve-Lazaret IX-C(a), was administered from the camp at Obermaßfeld. On 29 March 1945, as American forces advanced, the camp was evacuated and prisoners were driven eastward on a forced march that lasted up to four weeks for some; those too ill to march were liberated in place by units of the U.S. Third Army.

Airmen held here

J S A Aspinall — Unknown
R Backwell-smith — Unknown
T H Baker — Unknown
P Barkess — Unknown
P J Barraball — Unknown
S D Bartlett — Unknown
J R A Bedard — Unknown
W L Bourdat — Unknown
R A Brown — Unknown
E E Brownhall — Unknown
D R Burns — Unknown
L P Burton — Unknown
Victor Frank Cave — Unknown
W G Clapp — Unknown
D. E. Cooke — Unknown
W B Couchman — Unknown
J Crossland — Unknown
F B Day — Unknown
D R P De Laurier — Unknown
K Dobbs — Unknown
W A Dunleavy — Unknown
T R Ely — Unknown
R F Emery — Unknown
A M Fellner — Unknown
G H Fewtrell — Unknown
D J Fry — Unknown
C T H Fuller — Unknown
J E M Fullum — Unknown
S L E G Gheude — Unknown
G Hather — Unknown
William James Hay — Unknown
R J Henry — Unknown
A A Holmwood — Unknown
T R Hope — Unknown
Norman Cyril Jackson — Unknown
S Jensen — Unknown
C H Kidds — Unknown
W R Lauder — Unknown
J C L Leigh — Unknown
O D Lewis — Unknown
H J R Linet — Unknown
T G Little — Unknown
A Loftus — Unknown
A Loveridge — Unknown
C Lunny — Unknown
W J Macstocker — Unknown
L F McCarney — Unknown
R McGowan — Unknown
J W McLaren — Unknown
J Meek — Unknown
W S Muego — Unknown
J Osizewski — Unknown
F N Paisley — Unknown
R H Pearce — Unknown
D Pizzey — Unknown
Jaroslav Polednik — Unknown
G Stevens — Unknown
F Taylor — Unknown
D A Wallis — Unknown
R S Williams — Unknown
R W Wilmott — Unknown