He was wounded towards the end of the uprising and, after the Polish capitulation he was sent to the POW camp in Lamsdorf.
Stalag VIII-B, a notorious World War II German Army prisoner of war camp near Lamsdorf (Łambinowice)
In December 1944 Coward was sent back to the main camp of Stalag VIII-B at Lamsdorf (now Łambinowice, Poland) and in January 1945, the POWs were marched under guard to Bavaria, where they were eventually liberated.
Many soldiers were taken prisoner especially at the beginning of the war and were interned in various POW camps, including Stalag VIII-B Lamsdorf, Stalag IV-C at Wistritz bei Teplitz, and Stalag IV-B near Most in the Czech Republic.