2041750 Lance-Corporal George P MOONEY, Irish Guards: POW

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Army Number: 2041750
Rank: Lance-Corporal
Name: George P MOONEY
Unit: Royal Engineers ; Irish Guards

Date of Birth: 3 January 1917
Place of Birth:

Date of Capture:
Place of Capture:

POW Number: 6365
POW Camps: Stalag XVIIIA


Army Number Block Allocations for Royal Engineers = 1842001 - 2303000

 

Army Number: 2041750
Rank: Guardsman
Name: G MOONEY
Unit: 1 Irish Guards
GSM & Clasp: GSM, Palestine Clasp 1936 - 1939
TNA Reference: WO 100/503

 

Army Number: 2041750
Rank: Lance-Corporal
Name: G P MOONEY
Unit: Irish Guards
Theatre:
POW Number: 6365
Date of Capture:
Place of Capture:
Camp: Stalag XVIIIA

 

Name: George [P] Mooney . Date of Birth: 03/01/1917 . Place of Birth: [unspecified]. ... | The National Archives
Reference: WO 416/259/506
Name: George [P] Mooney.
Date of Birth: 03/01/1917.
Place of Birth: [unspecified].
Service: British Army.
Rank: Lance Corporal.
Regiment/Unit/Squadron: [Irish Guards].
Service Number: 2041750.
Date of Capture: [unspecified].
Theatre of Capture: [unspecified].
Camp Name/Number: Stalag XVIIIA Wolfsberg.
PoW number: 6365.
Date of Death: [unspecified].
Number of Photographs: 0.
Number of Fingerprints: 0.
Number of X-rays: 0.
Number of Cards: 1.
Date: [1939-1945]

 

George Mooney was my father and a great man.
the wedding photo attached was from 1955 and my father’s best man was another Irish Guardsman, Jim McNally.
A chance meeting I had at the Guards Museum in London got me in touch with Jim. Whilst buying my ticket to enter the museum I recognised the gentleman giving me the ticket was wearing an Irish Guards tie, I told him my father was also in The Irish Guards, he asked me my fathers name and you could've heard a pin drop when I told him, he stopped dead in his tracks and said “I was the best man at your parents wedding!”
Jim and I stayed in touch from then onwards until his passing.
The other photos are from a newspaper article of when my father was still playing rugby at 68 years old. He retired from rugby when he was 70!
My father passed away in 1989.
A huge thank you to all that served in our military.

 

Appears in 3 casualty lists:
List No. 1114 dated 20.4.43 - North Africa, Missing believed POW, date of casualty 30.3.43
List No. 1140 dated 21.5.43 - Previously reported missing believed POW now reported POW
List No. 1802 dated 7.7.45 - Previously reported POW in German hands (Germany) now not POW

POW No 6365, camp 18A Wolfsberg (Karnton)

 

Tony56, this is great information. Thank you.