Researching a man who was killed on the 26th June 1942 and is remembered at the Caserta War Cemetery in Italy. I can't seem to find much information about the 9th Bn around this date. Can anyone enlighten me please?
Is this the man? If so: Casualty Private CARR, WILFRED ERNEST Service Number 4458467 Died 26/06/1942 Aged 39 9th Bn. Durham Light Infantry Son of Thomas and Mary Carr; husband of Phoebe Carr, of Stechford, Birmingham. Buried at CASERTA WAR CEMETERY Location: Italy Number of casualties: 756 Cemetery/memorial reference: VII, A, 3. See cemetery plan Going by date, it'd appear he was POW. 9th Bn were in Tunisia & then Sicily wasn't it? His remains were buried in civilian cemetery and then re-buried 27/10/1944. Also see note on concentration report about confusion over surname
Why I thought he'd be POW, but can't find him listed... maybe someone else will have better luck, even on casualty lists?
Missing 15th June 1942 believed wounded. North Africa, Died of wounds 26/06/1942 (Date of death originally given as the 27th June 1942 the CWGC have 24th June?) Kyle
Wow that's amazing information Kyle. If he was wounded North Africa why buried in Italy? CWGC have 26th June btw.
As a POW he would've been evacuated across the Mediterranean to Italy. Fairly standard procedure at the time.
On their register they have 26th but look at the date of death on the concentration document posted by Diane He was `missing` in France in 1940 too ,but later found/rejoined Kyle
He would have died in Caserta Hospital, where many POWs who had been taken prisoner in North Africa and shipped over to Italy ended upif they were sick or wounded. All the men on the Concentration Form above were initially buried in Caserta Civil Cemetery and presumably they too died in the hospital. The WO 392/21 Register of Imperial prisoners of war in Italy is dated August 1943, hence he can't be traced in that. He might be mentioned in the RedCross/Protecting Power Inspection report for Caserta Hospital - I will find the number on the NA website and edit this post. Vitellino Edited: note dates Reference: WO 224/158 Description: Caserta Hospital Date: 1941 Nov. - 1943 Mar. Held by: The National Archives, Kew Legal status: Public Record(s) Closure status: Open Document, Open Description CWGC Records: Caserta War Cemetery - 756 casualties, of whom 711 Army. Of these, 254 died before the Sicily Landings in July 1943, hence prisoners of war.
Kyle can you please tell me where you found this information? I've some experience researching WW1 but not much for WW2.