Yep Siemens RW etc. are better documentation.
My farther rarely talked about his stint in WW2, did find out from my mum & his best friend a number of things, he was a regular before war broke out, married my mum two weeks before the start, she did not see him again for 6 years, apparently captured at Dunkirk, escaped, sent to North Africa, captured again, escaped, ended up giving themselves up as no food or water, sent to Italy as a POW, escaped again, lived in the mountains for about 6 months, got shot in the lower back when visiting a village where they regulary got food from one lady & small daughter, a German surgeon saved his life, then sent to Germany where he escaped again twice, eventually got liberated he was emaciated but had to make their own way back to the coast to return to England, that episode made him decide to leave the forces.
I saw a program on TV where they interviewed a woman in Italy who was a small child during the war & she mentioned how some British troups would come down into the village for food as my father had passed on before that program, I often wondered if he was one of them she talked about.
