Looking for POW stories from Rennes Military Hospital

[sirjahn]

I am the son of an 82nd Airborne paratrooper who was wounded and captured on D-Day and subsequently held in a POW Hospital in Rennes, France. This hospital variously called E.P.S Rennes, EPS Lazarett (Teillager), Rennes Military Hospital, Frontstalag 221 W, or Lazarett 133, held the wounded Allied paratroopers from D-Day and later other Allied wounded. It was administered by the Germans but Allied and French doctors ran the place.

I am seeking any stories from the estimated 300 British and Canadian POWs that were held there or were patched up there and sent on. These stories I hope will fill in the blanks that my father never told me about. I have collected what I believe to be most of the estimated 1300 POW names from June, July 1944 that were there prior to liberation on 4 August.

Thanks in advance,

Dale
LTC USA (Retired)

 

[sirjahn]

Just an update I now have the D-Day to Liberation A&D that Major Oxley and Captain Kolman created that I got at NARA. It lists 656 US, 272 British, 88 Canadians, 1 New Zealander and 1 Netherlander POWs stayed in the hospital. 30 US, 4 British and 2 Canadians died while at the hospital. 270 US POWs went back into the POW pipeline to be sent to Stalags elsewhere. I have signatures of the Stabsarzt Lumpf that was there first and Oberstabsarzt Enzinger that took over in July 1944.