Court was born April 23, 1919 in Winnebago, WI. He was the son of Frank and Edna Rowlands. He married Blossom Londre and they had two children.

Court served in Germany during WWII and became a Prisoner of War at Stalag 3C Alt Drewitz Brandenburg, Prussia 52-14.

Records show:
http://www.merkki.com/guestbook2002page1.htm

Name: John Jackson
Hometown: Quincy, IL
POW Camp: Stalag 12a and Stalag IIIc
Sent: 3.46 PM - 2/15 2002

We are searching for Veterans that served with Ssgt John W JACKSON of the 90th Division 357th regiment during WWII. Ssgt Jackson was a POW in Stalag 12a and Stalag IIIc from July 7, 1944 until 1945 when he was liberated from Stalag 3c. Send Info to :
Ruth Jackson , 2130 Harrison apt 7-a, Quincy , IL 62301 or John W Jackson Jr, 38 Freymuth Rd, Lake St. Louis, MO 63367 (jjackson@gtw.net)
These names are listed in John W Jackson’s war diary. They are believed to be collected during his internment in several POW camps including Stalags 3c and 12a.

Floyd Ball, 1440 Downic St , Oroville, Ca; t4
Robert Henay, 237 Kenmore Ave, Buffalo, NY ssgt
Loyd H George, route 4, St. Joseph, MO sgt
Paul P Kezior, route 1 Box 46, Farwell, NB
Emory B Jones, Milan, Georgia sgt
*Courtney G Rowlands, 1240 Grove Ave, Racine, WI

photos http://www.merkki.com/photo.htm

http://aad.archives.gov/aad/display-partial-records.jsp?f=645&mtch=2&q=rowlands&cat=all&dt=466&tf=F&bc=sl,sd

36834762
ROWLANDS COURTNEY G
ARMY
Wisconsin
European Theatre: Germany
Returned to Military Control, Liberated or Repatriated
GERMANY
Stalag 3C Alt Drewitz Brandenburg, Prussia 52-14
current location is Drzewice Kostrzyn, Poland northeast of Dustrin in Poland. The camp was liberated by the Russians

File Unit: World War II Prisoners of War Data File, 12/7/1941 - 11/19/1946
in the Series: Records of World War II Prisoners of War, created 1942 - 1947, documenting the period 12/7/1941 - 11/19/1946. - Record Group 389 (info)

Brief Scope: This series has information about U.S. military officers and soldiers and U.S. and some Allied civilians who were prisoners of war and internees.

Field Title        Value            Meaning
SERIAL NUMBER        36834762        36834762
NAME            ROWLANDS COURTNEY G    ROWLANDS COURTNEY G
GRADE, ALPHA        SGT            Sergeant
GRADE CODE        5        Captain or Asst. superintendent of nurses or Asst. director of nurses or Chief dietitian or Chief physical therapy aides or Sergeant or Technician 4th Grade or Lieutenant or Petty Officer, 3rd Class
SERVICE CODE        1            ARMY
ARM OR SERVICE        INF            Infantry
ARM OR SERVICE CODE    10            INF: INFANTRY
DATE REPORT: DAY (DD)    23            23
DATE REPORT: MONTH (MM) 07            07
DATE REPORT: YEAR (Y)    4            1944
RACIAL GROUP CODE    1            WHITE
STATE OF RESIDENCE    63            Wisconsin
TYPE OF ORGANIZATION    740        Branch Immaterial/Infantry Division Band/Dental Corps/Medical Department
PARENT UNIT NUMBER    }358            }358
PARENT UNIT TYPE    06            Group/Regiment/Commands/System
AREA            72            European Theatre: Germany
LATEST REPORT DATE: DAY (DD)    28        28
LATEST REPORT DATE: MONTH (MM)    03        03
LATEST REPORT DATE: YEAR (Y)    6        1946
SOURCE OF REPORT    1        Individual has been reported through sources considered official.
STATUS            7        Returned to Military Control, Liberated or Repatriated
DETAINING POWER    1            GERMANY

CAMP 005 Stalag 3C Alt Drewitz Brandenburg, Prussia 52-14

http://www.stalag3a.com/
STALAG 3 A

Stalag 3A. Two hundred thousand prisoners of war passed through its gates during World War II, beginning in 1939. Those remaining in the camp at the close of the war were liberated by the Russians in April 1945. Approximately 5,000 died from disease, starvation, cold, brutality and neglect.*

In April 1945, the Stalag held approximately four thousand American POW's in a compound separated from other nationalities. Crowded four hundred men to a tent, the day to day routine was an exercise in misery, hunger, cold, and lice. A chief preoccupation involved tediously removing individual lice from one's garments. Showers were a rarity and only two outdoor faucets provided fresh water for the prisoners. Survival for American prisoners was largely contingent on the erratic receipt of Red Cross parcels. Indeed, if the war had continued for another season, many prisoners would have succumbed from malnutrition and associated diseases.

Separate compounds were established for British, French, Italian and Belgian prisoners of war.

The same was true for other nationalities. An especially large compound housed Soviet POW's, who numbered in the thousands. Since the Soviet Union was not a signatory to the Geneva Convention, which enacted rules for the treatment of prisoners of war, Soviet prisoners were subjected to especially harsh and brutal treatment. Indeed, it is likely that Soviet prisoners accounted for the vast majority of deaths in the camp.

Stalag 3A prisoners served the German war industry and provided labor for households of civilians in the town of Luckenwalde, a picturesque town approximately thirty miles south of Berlin, which had been largely untouched by the ravages of the war.

http://www.stalag3a.com/EarlyDataFramed.htm

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Racine florist dies (Courtney G. Rowlands)

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Apr 1, 1990
Courtney "Court" G. Rowlands, 70, who owned and operated Aladdin Flower Shop in West Racine and on Taylor Avenue, died Friday.

Rowlands served as president of the West Racine Business and Professional Men's Association in the 1970s.

A 1937 graduate of Park High School, Rowlands served in the U.S. Army in Europe during World War II and was a prisoner of war.

Survivors include his wife, Blossom; a son and a daughter.

Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. today at Wilson Funeral Home, 1139 Blaine Ave. Services will be held at 10 a.m. Monday at the funeral home, with burial to follow at Graceland Cemetery.

Courtney Rowlands (1919)