ALEXANDER, Charles Henry

Rank: 
Trooper
Unit / Base: 
1 Commando
Prior Police Service: 
Leicester City Police
Regiment/Corps: 
Royal Armoured Corps
Service: 
Army
Number: 
14241760
P.O.W. number: 
226753
Born: 
Friday, March 9, 1917
Died: 
1980
Place died: 
Leicester
Charles Alexander was a Melton Mowbray Police Constable residing in 1939 at 7 The Cresent, Melton Mowbray. He volunteered for the commandos enlisting 19 July 1942 joining the 2nd Police Intake to the Commando Depot (Commando Basic Training Centre), Achnacarry. Lance Corporal Charles Alexander was reported missing 2 March 1943 during operations at Bizerte, Tunisia, later found to be a prisoner of war. Post war member of the Commando Association last known residing Loughborough.
Prison Camps
March to September 1943 Camp PG66.
October 1943 to May 1945 Stalag IV C.
 
Sources
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/60.
Prisoners of War / National Archives files WO392/11 (Stalag 4C), WO392/21 (Camp PG66).
German Record Cards of British PoWs / National Archives file WO416/4/65.
Dir. of Mil. Int.: Liberated Prisoner of War Interrogation Questionnaire 1945/6 / National Archives file WO344/4/1.
The 1939 Register covering Melton Mowbray.
Deaths registered April, May, June 1980 in the district of Loughborough.
Commando Associattion Lost Legion List 1.

Leicester Evening Mail 03 April 1943, p8.


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