

Clark, Donald
Name: Donald CLARK
Born 3 September 1917
Hometown: Carman, Manitoba
Age at arrival in Buchenwald: 26
Died 30 April 1988, Manitoba, age 70
Service: Royal Canadian Air Force
Service ID: R106192
Service Rank: Warrant Officer-1
Duties: Radioman [Wireless Air Gunner]
Air Group: 76 Squadron
Airbase: Holme-on-Spalding Moor, Yorkshire UK
Aircraft: Halifax bomber MZ531
Date shot down: 8 June 1944
Fate of crew: 3 captured immediately, 4 evaded; 2 of those captured, one sent to Buchenwald (Clark).
Evasion summary:
Date captured: 28 July 1944
Capture summary: Arrived at Gestapo HQ with LAMASON, met PHELPS and a US airman. Taken to Fresnes Prison
Boxcar Transport: 15-20 August 1944, in boxcar # with
Buchenwald ID: 78364
Notes on Buchenwald internment:
Transferred from Buchenwald to: Stalag Luft III
Kriege ID: 8078
Notes on SLIII internment:
Subsequent transfer to: Marlag und Milag Nord
Notes on internment: Approximately 3000 POWs were marched out by the SS in early April 1945, headed to Lubek. The column was attacked repeatedly by Allied aircraft. Clark is on the list of POWs who escaped somewhere between Marlag-Milag and Lubek. His debriefing report has not been accessed.
Liberation:
Repatriation from ETO:
Discharged:
Veteran status:
Notes on Post-War period: