Aleksei Petrov

Sergeant Aleksei Petrov fought with the 45th Guards Tank Brigade at Kursk, Kharkov, and across Ukraine. Captured during a German counter-attack in early 1944, he spent over a year as a prisoner of war. After liberation by British forces in 1945, he was not repatriated to the USSR and remained in Britain. Why he was not repatriated is not established. He settled in Bristol, where the local Russian émigré community helped him rebuild his life. He worked as an engineer at the Bristol Aeroplane Company.