2737496 Lance-Serjeant Noel Lawton MORRIS, 3 Welsh Guards: POW

Date of Enlistment: 15 August 1940
Army Number: 2737496
Rank: Lance-Serjeant
Name: Noel Lawton MORRIS
Unit: 3 Welsh Guards

Date of Birth: 8 June 1920
Place of Birth: Brynmayr

Date of Capture: 24 March 1943
Place of Capture: Grich-El-Oued, Tunisia

POW Number: 8972
POW Camps: Campo PG 66, Campo PG 73, Stalag XVIIIA, Stalag XVIIIC

 

Name: Noel Lawton Morris . Date of Birth: 08/06/1920 . Place of Birth: Brynmayr . ... | The National Archives
Reference: WO 416/262/452
Name: Noel Lawton Morris.
Date of Birth: 08/06/1920.
Place of Birth: Brynmayr.
Service: British Army.
Rank: Lance Sergeant.
Regiment/Unit/Squadron: [Welsh Guards].
Service Number: 2737496.
Date of Capture: [unspecified].
Theatre of Capture: [unspecified].
Camp Name/Number: Stalag XVIIIA Wolfsberg.
PoW number: 8972.
Date of Death: [unspecified].
Number of Photographs: 0.
Number of Fingerprints: 0.
Number of X-rays: 0.
Number of Cards: 1.

 

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PART I.
GENERAL QUESTIONNAIRE FOR BRITISH/AMERICAN EX-PRISONERS OF WAR.

1. No. 2737496
RANK - L/SGT.
SURNAME - MORRIS
CHRISTIAN NAMES - NOEL LAWTON
DECORATIONS -

2. UNIT (ARMY) - 3rd Bn. WELSH GUARDS

3. DIVISION (ARMY) - 6th ARMOURED DIV.

4. DATE OF BIRTH - 8/6/20

5. DATE OF ENLISTMENT - 15/8/40

6. CIVILIAN TRADE OR PROFESSION - SHOP ASSISTANT

7. PRIVATE ADDRESS - 12 HIGH ST., ABERGAVENNY, MON., S. WALES

8. PLACE AND DATE OF ORIGINAL CAPTURE - GRICH-EL-OUED, TUNISIA 24/3/43

9. WERE YOU WOUNDED WHEN CAPTURED? - NO

10. MAIN CAMPS OR HOSPITALS IN WHICH IMPRISONED
Camp No. / Location / From / Till
[CAMPO] PG 66 CAPUA, ITALY 4/4/43 - 28/10/43
[CAMPO] PG 73 CARPI, ITALY 2/10/43 - 30/10/43
[STALAG] XVIIIA WOLFSBERG AUSTRIA 22/4/45 - 3/5/45
[STALAG] XVIIIC MARKT PONGAU, AUSTRIA 5/5/45 -


11. WERE YOU IN A WORKING CAMP?
Location / From/ Till / Nature of Work
107/GW GRAZ 31/10/43 - 10/3/44 MAKING AIR-RAID SHELTERS
331/L STAINZ 11/3/44 - 7/1/45 FARM WORKER
107/GW GRAZ 8/1/45 - 20/4/45 BOMB DAMAGE


12. DID YOU SUFFER FROM ANY SERIOUS ILLNESSES WHILE A P/W?
Nature of Illness / Cause / Duration
ACUTE APPENDICITIS, OPERATION BY SERB. DOCTOR / ? / 24/4/45 - 14/5/45
12 b. DID YOU RECEIVE ADEQUATE MEDICAL TREATMENT?
YES



GENERAL QUESTIONNAIRE PART II TOP SECRET

1. No. 2737496
RANK - L/SGT.
SURNAME - MORRIS
CHRISTIAN NAMES - NOEL LAWTON


2. LECTURES before Capture: YES
( a ) Were you lectured in your unit on how to behave the event of capture? (State where, when and by whom).
IN HAMPSTEAD, LONDON, DEC. 1942 BY MAJOR FRIPP, WELSH GUARDS.
( b ) Were you lectured on escape and evasion? (State where, when and by whom.

IN HAMPSTEAD, LONDON, DEC. 1942 BY MAJOR FRIPP, WELSH GUARDS.

3. INTERROGATION after capture:
Were you specially interrogated by the enemy? (State where, when and methods employed by enemy).
YES. IN THE TOWN OF TUNIS. MARCH 25th 26th 1943.
Offered good treatment & food. German appeared in my room posing as English Pilot shot down.


4. ESCAPES attempted:
Did yo make any attempted or partly successful escapes? (Give details of each attempt accurately, stating where, when, method employed, names of your companions, wherein when recaptured and by whom. Were you physically fit? What happened to your companions?)
When travelling by train from ITALY to AUSTRIA. I waited for train to stop & made a dash for cover. Was recaptured almost immediately by Germans.


5. SABOTAGE
Did you do any sabotage or destruction of enemy factory plant, war material, communications, etc, when employed on working-parties or during escape? (Give details, places and dates.)
Numerous times when on Working Parties, working tools ie Concrete mixers & conveyers were made useless. Air-Raid shelters were made useless by bad concrete mixing.


6. COLLABORATION with enemy:
Do you know of any British or American personnel who collaborated with the enemy or in any way helped the enemy agains other Allied Prisoners of War? (Give details, names of persons concerned, camps, dates and nature of collaboration or help given to enemy).
No

7. WAR CRIMES
If you have any information or evidence of bad treatment by the enemy to yourself or to others, or knowledge of any enemy violation of Geneva Convention you should ask for a copy of "Form Q" on which to make your statement.
(NOTE: Form Q is a separate form inviting information on "War Crimes" and describes the kind of offences coning under this title.)



GENERAL QUESTIONNAIRE PART II TOP SECRET
(continued)

8. Have you any other matter of any kind you wish to bring to notice? YES.
I am an N.C.O., but I was made to work when it was against my wish. No notice was taken of my repeated offers to prove my rank & be sent to a camp for N.C.Os.



SECURITY UNDERTAKING
I fully realise that all information relating the matters covered by the questions in Part II. are of a highly secret and official nature.

I have had explained to me and fully understand that under Defence Regulations or U.S.A.R. 380-5 I am forbidden to publish or communicate any information concerning these matters.

Date 20/5/45
Signature N.L. Morris, L/Sgt.