Day: March 20, 2018

 

Welcome and thanks for dropping by.  My name is Jeanette Vizzard and this is my first blog!

I want to get my family stuff, the family stories ‘out there’ – into the blogosphere, into cyberspace or wherever you might be.

The ‘stuff’ might be stories I have been told, have researched or stories about stuff we have around the house like the blue scarf I’m going to tell you about today.

                   2 family members –  Buffy and Clive

The story is about my father, Stephen Walter McDougal who served in the 2/3rd Field Regiment in World War II and who became a prisoner of war after capture on Crete – and about the significance of a blue scarf in his ‘grab for freedom’ from prisoner of war camp Stalag VIIA.

Here are the first few lines – keep reading by going to the next post for the whole story.  Hope you enjoy it.

This blue scarf, a coat and a cap were hung on a peg one morning in a railway yard in Germany during World War II where Australian prisoners of war were working.  The civilian worker who put them there went home cold that evening.   

This blue scarf, a coat and a cap were stolen that day by my father.