150487 Lance-Corporal George Edward WARNES, RASC attached 200 Guards Brigade: POW

Date of Enlistment: 17 Jan 1940
Army Number: 150487
Rank: Lance-Corporal
Name: George Edward WARNES
Unit: Royal Army Service Corps attached 200 Guards Brigade

Date of Birth: 16 Oct 1912
Place of Birth: London

POW Number: 7131
Date of Capture: 20 Jun 1942
Place of Capture: Tobruk

• Army Number Block Allocations
• Royal Army Service Corps 1 - 294000

 

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Reference: WO 416/380/150
Name: George Edward Warnes.
Date of Birth: 16/10/1912.
Place of Birth: London.
Service: [British Army].
Rank: Corporal.
Regiment/Unit/Squadron: [Royal Army Service Corps].
Service Number: 150487.
Date of Capture: [unspecified].
Theatre of Capture: [unspecified].
Camp Name/Number: Stalag XVIIIA Wolfsberg.
PoW number: 7131.
Date of Death: [unspecified].
Number of Photographs: 0.
Number of Fingerprints: 0.
Number of X-rays: 0.
Number of Cards: 1.
Date: [1939-1945]

 

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

1. No. 150487
RANK - L/CPL
SURNAME - WARNES
CHRISTIAN NAMES - GEORGE EDWARD
DECORATIONS - ? ? ? [sic]

2. UNIT (ARMY) - R.A.S.C. 200th GUARDS BRIGADE

3. DIVISION (ARMY) - 1st ARM. DIV.

4. DATE OF BIRTH - 16/10/12

5. DATE OF ENLISTMENT - 17/1/40

6. CIVILIAN TRADE OR PROFESSION - TRAVELLER

7. PRIVATE ADDRESS - 126 MORLEY AVE., WOOD GREEN, LONDON N.22, ENGLAND

8. PLACE AND DATE OF ORIGINAL CAPTURE - TOBRUK 20/6/42

9. WERE YOU WOUNDED WHEN CAPTURED? - NO

10. MAIN CAMPS OR HOSPITALS IN WHICH IMPRISONED
Camp No. / Location / From / Till
[CAMPO] PG 116 DESERT (LIBYAN) 27/6/42 - 19/11/42
[CAMPO] PG 68 VETRALLA ITALY 25/11/42 - 1/12/42
[CAMPO] PG 57 GRUPIGNANO N. ITALY 2/12/42 - 8/9/43
STALAG 18A AUSTRIA 11/9/43 - END OF WAR


11. WERE YOU IN A WORKING CAMP?
Location / From/ Till / Nature of Work
SCHLADMING 1210/43 - 2/2/45 TIMBER
ROTTENMANN 3/2/45 - END OF WAR GENERAL LABOUR


12. DID YOU SUFFER FROM ANY SERIOUS ILLNESSES WHILE A P/W?
Nature of Illness / Cause / Duration
DYSENTERY RUSTY WATER 5 WEEKS
12 b. DID YOU RECEIVE ADEQUATE MEDICAL TREATMENT?
NONE AT ALL


GENERAL QUESTIONNAIRE PART II TOP SECRET

1. No. 150487
RANK - L/CPL
SURNAME - WARNES
CHRISTIAN NAMES - GEORGE EDWARD


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 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?)
FROM BENGHAZI, ALONE. CLIMBED UNDER SUPPLY TRUCK. ACROSS DESERT 16 DAYS. FOOD (BERRIES, DATES & CHEESE). RECAPTURED BY SENOUSI OR ARABS. WEAK FROM DYSENTERY. PUNISHMENT. CHAINED TO GATE FOR 3 HOURS IN SUN.


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.)
IN TIMBER FACTORY MAKING BARRACKS. SMASHED FINISHED ARTICLES DAILY.


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).
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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?
MURDER OF CORPORAL SYMONS IN P.G. 57 GRUPIGNANO BY ITALIAN CARABINIERI.
NO PUNISHMENT GIVEN TO PERPETRATOR BY COLONEL CALCETTERA COMMANDER OF P.G. 57. FACIST.


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 12/5/45
Signature G.E. Warnes

 

"MURDER OF CORPORAL SYMONS IN P.G. 57 GRUPIGNANO BY ITALIAN CARABINIERI."

L/Corporal Warnes was in Campo PG 57 GRUPIGNANO, from 2/12/42 to 8/9/43.

Of the 4 results from a CWGC search for SYMONS buried in ITALY, only one falls within the correct timeframe and has the rank of Corporal. Service records, confirm identification below:

• WX.1982 Corporal Edward William SYMONS, 2/32nd Bn. Australian Infantry: PoW, 20/05/1943
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CORPORAL EDWARD WILLIAM SYMONS
Service Number: WX.1982
Regiment & Unit: A.I.F. 2/32nd Bn. Australian Infantry
Date of Death: 20 May 1943
Age 41 years old
Buried or commemorated at UDINE WAR CEMETERY
Grave Reference: IV. G. 2.
Location: Italy
Additional Info: Son of Frederick and Eleanor Symons, of Victoria Park, Western Australia.​

"Udine was entered by troops of the 6th Armoured Division on 1 May 1945, the day before the German surrender in Italy. Burials in Udine War Cemetery include casualties from the last few days of the war in Italy, some earlier prisoner-of-war and air force casualties, later garrison burials and some made from 70 British General Hospital which was at Udine for several months from May 1945."


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