SCALLY, Augustine
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Known as:
Austin
Rank:
Private
Unit / Base:
1 Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Welch Regiment
Service:
Army
Number:
3964285
P.O.W. number:
81107
P.O.W. camps:
Born:
Tuesday, November 26, 1918
Private Augustine Scally from Wigan was reported wounded and missing on 6 December 1942 during operations in North Africa, later found to have been captured on the 2nd December. Enlisted 16 October 1939, former trade - French Polisher.
Prison Camps
10.04.1943 to 08.09.1943 Camp PG73.
20.09.1943 to 20.02.1945 Stalag VIIIA.
24.02.1945 to 08.05.1945 Stalag IVC.
Extract from the Liverpool Echo newspaper
"Private Austin Scally* of Silver Street, Wigan, has written to his parents that he is a prisoner of war in Italy, and is in hospital with wounds. He was reported missing, believed wounded, in North Africa in December. He had taken part in operations in Norway and other theatres of war."
Sources
Casualty Lists / National Archives files WO417/55 (1942), WO417/57 (1943) and WO417/94 (1945).
Prisoners of War / National Archives files WO392/1 (Stalag 8A) and WO392/21 (Camp 73).
Dir. of Mil. Int.: Liberated Prisoner of War Interrogation Questionnaire 1945/6 / National Archives file WO344/279/1.
The 1939 Register covering Wigan.
Commando Association Lost Legions List 10.
Report in the Liverpool Echo newspaper 19 February 1943
*Correct forename is Augustine as on WO344 above. Austin was a nickname.
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