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r www.durhamrcgion.com THE CANADIAN STATESMAN, SEPTEMBER 10,2003 PAGE 7 Prisoners of war, guards, revisit Bowmanville A.J. GROEN/ Statesman photo Volkmar Konig (left), and Jack Garnett stroll through the grounds at Great Lakes School in Bowmanville, which was once a prisoner of war camp. Volkmar was a German PoW, while Jack was a guard. year-old who spent three years in thd PRISONERS from page 1 '16-km expanse of beach of the same , name in northern France. When word eventually got back to Canada that 900 Canadians had been killed * and some of the 1,900 taken prisoner prisoner were ill-treated. Camp 30 guards put the German officers into shackles. shackles. This was not done to officers, according according to the Geneva Convention and Mr. Konig. "So we barricaded ourselves," he says. "Then they brought in troops from Kingston." One of those soldiers was Jack Garrett, who joined his former wards for the first time in 61 years on Sunday. Sunday. "I'm from Port Hope originally," says the Scarborough resident who was a member of the Royal Canadi- ... an Ordnance Corps when he was called to Bowmanville. He recalls the three-day 'Battle of Bow- manville' (Oct. 10-12, 1942) interrupting interrupting his plans to spend Thanksgiving Thanksgiving with family before be was shipped overseas. Mr. Garrett was 22-year-old and remembers being part of the "perimeter force" outside the main camp. "I wasn't part of the battle," says Mr. Garrett, who spent time reminiscing reminiscing with Mr. Konig and Mr. Pe- - trenko about the incident. During the standoff, shots were fired which give Mr. Konig in particular particular good reason to remember it well. "I was the only one shot in the Baltic of Bowmanville. 1 still have a splinter in my back," says the 82- camp, from April 1942 to April 1945. "Shackle a German officer?" the then 21-year-old Konig recalls telling the guards. "You're nuts. If you want to shackle us. you will have to come and get us!" The highest ranking PoW. U-boat captain Otto Kretschmer, led the rebellion rebellion during which the German prisoners armed themselves with broken jam jars, bags of pepper, and pieces of furniture. Eventually, the Canadians used water hoses to end the siege. Although the official government line was that only warning shots were fired. Mr. Konig says bullets came directly at him and his fellow PoWs from the watchtower. One of the shells ricocheted, sendinc the splinter into his back: another bullet went through his thigh. When the war ended both Mr. Petrenko Petrenko and Mr. Konig were returned to Germany. Both married, had families families and lived successful lives. Mr. Konig owned a factory and now lives in Kiel, Germany. Mr. Petrenko Petrenko returned to Canada in .1956 and became president of his own business; an achievement he says began at Camp 30. 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