76279 Lieutenant Ion Hunter Touchet GARNET-ORME, CBE, 2 Welsh Guards: POW

Date of Commission: possibly May 193?
Personal Number: 76279
Rank: Lieutenant
Name: Ion Hunter Touchet GARNETT-ORME, CBE
Unit: 2 Welsh Guards

Date of Birth: 23 January 1910
Place of Birth: Banbury

Date of Capture: 24 May 1940
Place of Capture: Boulogne-sur-Mer, France

POW Number: 565
POW Camps: Oflag VIIC, Stalag XXI D, Oflag VB, Oflag VIIB, Oflag VIIA


London Gazette : 31 December 1982
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/49212/supplement/8/data.pdf
THE QUEEN has been graciously pleased to give orders for the following promotions in, and appointments to, the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire:
Order of the British Empire (Civil Division)
C.B.E.
To be Ordinary Commanders of the Civil Division of the said Most Excellent Order:
Ion Hunter Touchet GARNETT-ORME, Chairman. St. Dunstan's.

 

Name: Jou [I H T] Garnett-Orme . Date of Birth: 23/01/1910 . Place of Birth: Banbury... | The National Archives
Reference: WO 416/134/122
Name: Jou [I H T] Garnett-Orme.
Date of Birth: 23/01/1910.
Place of Birth: Banbury.
Service: British Army.
Rank: Lieutenant.
Regiment/Unit/Squadron: Welsh Guards.
Service Number: 76279.
Date of Capture: 24 May 1940.
Theatre of Capture: Boulogne.
Camp Name/Number: Oflag VIIC Laufen.
PoW number: 565.
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. P/76279
RANK - Lt.
SURNAME - GARNETT-ORME
CHRISTIAN NAMES - ION
DECORATIONS -

2. UNIT (ARMY) - WELSH GUARDS

3. DIVISION (ARMY) - 20th GDS. BDE.

4. DATE OF BIRTH - JAN. 23rd 1910

5. DATE OF ENLISTMENT - MAY 193-

6. CIVILIAN TRADE OR PROFESSION - STOCK BROKER

7. PRIVATE ADDRESS - HILL LODGE, PANGBOURNE, BERKS.

8. PLACE AND DATE OF ORIGINAL CAPTURE - MAY 24th 1940 BOULOGNE

9. WERE YOU WOUNDED WHEN CAPTURED? - NO

10. MAIN CAMPS OR HOSPITALS IN WHICH IMPRISONED
Camp No. / Location / From / Till
OFLAG VII C/H LAUFEN JUNE 40 - MARCH 41
STALAG XXI D POSEN MARCH 41 - JUNE 41
OFLAG V B BIBERACH JUNE 41 - OCT 41
OFLAG VII B EICHSTATT SEPT 42 - APRIL 45
OFLAG VII A MOOSBURG APRIL 45 - -


11. WERE YOU IN A WORKING CAMP?
Location / From/ Till / Nature of Work
-

12. DID YOU SUFFER FROM ANY SERIOUS ILLNESSES WHILE A P/W?
Nature of Illness / Cause / Duration
NO
12 b. DID YOU RECEIVE ADEQUATE MEDICAL TREATMENT?
YES


GENERAL QUESTIONNAIRE PART II TOP SECRET

1. No. P/76279
RANK - LT.
SURNAME - GARNETT-ORME
CHRISTIAN NAMES - ION


2. LECTURES before Capture:
( a ) Were you lectured in your unit on how to behave the event of capture? (State where, when and by whom).
NO
( b ) Were you lectured on escape and evasion? (State where, when and by whom.
NO

3. INTERROGATION after capture:
Were you specially interrogated by the enemy? (State where, when and methods employed by enemy).
NO

4. ESCAPES attempted:
Did you 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?)
ONLY FRUSTRATED ATTEMPTS.

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.)
-

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).
-

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?
-


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 10/5/45
Signature I. Garnett Orme

 

See also:

• War Diary, 2nd Battalion Welsh Guards, Sep 1939 - Dec 1941
• APPENDIX 1:-
• Nominal Roll of Officers Available, or who may be Available for - 2nd Battalion WELSH GUARDS (In order of Seniority):-
• 2/ Lieutenant I.H.T. GARNETT-ORME
• Full text of "St. Dunstan's Review"
  
• THE SCRAP IRON FLOTILLA - Boulogne: The Guards Brigade Fighting Defence - May 1940
• "Back across the Channel some of the men who made up those casualty statistics were in hospitals, manning barricades or huddled in small groups in the darkened cellars of houses. In the foreboding silence of the town after the earlier din of battle some of the Welsh Guards who had been left behind were pondering their fate. For the time being Syd Pritchard and about twenty other ranks along with Peter Hanbury and Major Cas Jones-Mortimer, made themselves as comfortable as possible in their cellar and waited to see what daylight would bring. Across the street Captains Jack Higgon and Henry Coombe-Tennant accompanied by Second Lieutenant Ion Garnett-Orme and thirty other ranks did the same. Guardsman Doug Davies, by now leaderless, was still sheltering in a cellar near the fish market. His CO Major Windsor-Lewis was still defending a road-block with his two forward sections somewhere in the town, oblivious to the fact that the battalion had been evacuated. Joseph Bryan was still alone somewhere up near St. Martin beyond the Haute Ville where General Lanquetot and his French garrison had so far successfully resisted German pressure against the Citadel. General Lanquetot, Jim Windsor-Lewis, Syd Pritchard, Doug Davies and Joseph Bryan knew nothing of the dramatic events that had taken place at the harbour. As far as General Lanquetot and Windsor-Lewis were concerned the battle for Boulogne was still on and they were preparing for the next round. Little did Windsor-Lewis realise that for him and a small force of men, including Pritchard and Davies, the next round would be the last."