779800 Gunner John TOMES, 15 Coast Regiment, Royal Artillery: 07/10/1944

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  1. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

    Remembering Today

    Casualty
    Gunner TOMES, JOHN
    Service Number 779800
    Died 07/10/1944
    Aged 34
    15 Coast Regt., Royal Artillery
    Buried or commemorated at BERLIN 1939-1945 WAR CEMETERY
    Grave Reference: 10. L. 16.
    Location: Germany
     
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  2. Buteman

    Buteman 336/102 LAA Regiment (7 Lincolns), RA

    Gunner John TOMES (Berlin 1939-45 War Cemetery)

    (Image thanks to Smudger Jnr)

    I have a feeling this casualty might have been a POW.

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  3. Tullybrone

    Tullybrone Senior Member

    Hi,

    CWGC concentration report shows he was moved from original grave in Pulgar, Saxony - south west of Leipzig - in 1947.

    He may have been captured on Crete in 1941 where his Regiment was part of the Souda Bay defence force.

    RA 1939-45 15 Coast Rgt

    He may have been detained at one of the many work camps comprising Stalag IVG. It would likely be one of the 7 arbeitskommando comprising the Borna subdistrct as mentioned in the March 1945 ICRC inspection report from the Pegasus archive below.

    Steve Y

    Stalag IV-G - Wikipedia

    Stalag IVG
     
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  4. Guy Hudson

    Guy Hudson Looker-upper

    R.A. casualty card lists cause of death as "aerial bombardment"

    779800 TOMES John Gunner 15 Coast Regiment, Royal Artillery
    Born : 17th November 1909 Langley Park, Durham
    Enlisted : 19th March 1928 for 3/9 at Durham
    Army Reserve : 18th March 1931
    Posted to CD/AA 13th November 1940
    Captured Crete 2nd June 1941

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  5. Tullybrone

    Tullybrone Senior Member

    Confirmation of Gunner Tome’s death from allied bombing “friendly fire” reminded me of this post of mine from some years ago -

    Possible Lamsdorf POW Funeral Photos

    A friend of my fathers complained on his Liberation Questionnaire that at Stalag 8B Work Camp E711 near Auschwitz that the guards wouldn’t let the prisoners use the air raid shelters during allied raids leading to unnecessary deaths.

    Steve Y
     

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