BOAST, Edward Albert

Rank: 
Corporal
Unit / Base: 
50ME Commando
'Layforce'
Regiment/Corps: 
Royal Fusiliers 1st Bn.
Service: 
Army
Number: 
6457716
P.O.W. number: 
24265
Born: 
Monday, February 24, 1913
Died: 
1969
Place died: 
Essex
Edward Boast from Walthamstow, London, enlisted 1 January 1934. Corporal Boast was reported missing 2 June 1941 during operations in Crete, later found to be a prisoner of war.
 
Sources
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/27.
Prisoners of War / National Archives file WO392/1.
WW11 Liberated POW Questionnaires 1945-6 / National Archives file WO344 Directorate of Mil. Int.
Deaths Registered in Redbridge, Essex, Oct/Nov/Dec 1969.
 
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