Mendel Thrasher

Home Town: Pembroke, Ontario Conflict: World War II Branch: Army

  • Mendel Thrasher's Prisoner of War tags from Stalag VII A.
  • Portrait of Mendel Thrasher in uniform.
  • Telegram received by Mendel Thrasher's parents reporting him missing in action and believed to be prisoner of war, December 1944.
  • Postcard sent home by Mendel Thrasher from Prisoner of War Camp by Prisoners Post, informing his parents that he was indeed taken prisoner by the Germans and that he is well. Dated from January 13, 1945.
  • Pictured here in the <em>Halifax Daily Star</em> are Canadian veterans coming off the <em>RMS Scythia</em>, the ship on which Mendel Thrasher returned home after four years of war, January 6, 1946.
Mendel Thrasher's Prisoner of War tags from Stalag VII A. Mendel Thrasher
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