POW Service and Paybook's

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  1. AB64

    AB64 Senior Member

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    3190842 John Nelson Paul, 2 battery 1 LAA regiment Royal Artillery, he was taken POW 3/10/43 - I believe the unit was on Kos at this point
     
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  2. AB64

    AB64 Senior Member

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    7907875 Donald Price EVANS, Intelligence Corps - POW 1/6/42 at Gazala - its a shame his photo has been removed from his POW card

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  3. Tullybrone

    Tullybrone Senior Member

    Thanks for attaching his German POW records Alastair. I’ve never seen those forms previously. I obtained my father’s POW Index Card when I submitted FOI to NA a few years ago.

    Did you get them from the newly digitised German records at Kew?

    Steve
     
  4. AB64

    AB64 Senior Member

    The POW is the original and came with the paybook, I'm under the impression that in some camps on liberation some men took their cards as souvenirs - I think I have another but cant seem to find it - I've seen a few for sale over the years but not many.

    Alistair
     
  5. Tullybrone

    Tullybrone Senior Member

    Thanks Alistair.

    Steve
     
  6. AB64

    AB64 Senior Member

  7. bamboo43

    bamboo43 Very Senior Member

    Hi Alistair,

    Frederick's Liberation questionnaire was available on the Cofepow website:

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  8. AB64

    AB64 Senior Member

    Thanks for that, do you know if there are any more pages?
     
  9. bamboo43

    bamboo43 Very Senior Member

    Hi Alistair,

    The researchers at Cofepow only put the first page up on line I'm afraid. The form itself can be up to five pages long, other questions were set around, sabotage, lectures attended, treatment by Japanese etc.
    I have seen very few of these questionnaires where these other pages are filled out, so the chances are Frederick's form would have no further information.

    Steve
     
  10. AB64

    AB64 Senior Member

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    3857260 Sergeant Gordon Eric MELLALIEU, who was captured with 18th Recce at the fall of Singapore - I wonder if he knew Trooper Norcross also of 18th Recce who features earlier in the thread
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  11. bamboo43

    bamboo43 Very Senior Member

    Alistair,

    Liberation questionnaire for Patterson:

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  12. bamboo43

    bamboo43 Very Senior Member

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  13. Tricky Dicky

    Tricky Dicky Don'tre member

    UK, British Prisoners of War, 1939-1945
    Name: D P Evans
    Rank: Lance Corporal
    Army Number: 7907875
    Regiment: Intelligence Corps
    POW Number: 259970
    Camp Type: Stalag
    Camp Number: IV-B
    Camp Location: Mühlberg, Elbe, Brandenburg
    Record Office: Pioneer Corps and Intelligence Corps Record Office, The Dunholme Manor, Bournemouth

    TD
     
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  14. bamboo43

    bamboo43 Very Senior Member

    Alistair,

    RE: DP. Evans. There is a thread on the forum in relation to Campo 65, including a Red Cross Report and some photographs of the camp, or what is left of it today. Thought you might want to take a look.

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    Steve
     
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  15. Tricky Dicky

    Tricky Dicky Don'tre member

    member Vitellino has a web site for this camp I think - I would check with her as well if you want

    TD
     
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  16. AB64

    AB64 Senior Member

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    5615862 John BLACKMORE, Devonshire Regiment posted to RAOC he was capture on Crete 31/5/41
     
  17. AB64

    AB64 Senior Member

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    2341871 William Alfred HONEYBUNN, RCOS captured at the fall of Singapore 15/2/42

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  18. Tricky Dicky

    Tricky Dicky Don'tre member

    Incorrect transcription in his middle name by Ancestry

    England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007
    Name: William Alfred Honeybunn
    Death Age: 69
    Birth Date: 5 Jan 1920
    Registration Date: Apr 1989
    Registration district: Kingsbridge
    Inferred County: Devon
    Volume: 21
    Page: 1326

    TD

    ? is he Albert or Alfred ??
     
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  19. AB64

    AB64 Senior Member

    I hadn't even noticed he had 2 different middle names on his 2 books, the part 2 (Alfred) is the original one he had pre capture and the part 1 (Albert) was a replacement when he was liberated so probably done more hurriedly - looking at the other odds and ends of paperwork 2 mention Alfred

    Alistair
     
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    timuk Well-Known Member

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