PORTWAIN, Edward

Known as: 
Ginger
Rank: 
Fusilier
Unit / Base: 
6 Commando
Prior Police Service: 
Metropolitan Police
Regiment/Corps: 
Royal Fusiliers
Service: 
Army
Number: 
6482259
P.O.W. number: 
153508
Born: 
Saturday, April 20, 1918
In 1939 Edward Portwain was a Metropolitan Police Officer residing at the Police Section House, Arlington Road, Camden. He volunteered for the Commandos enlisting 23 June 1942 joining the 1st Police Intake to the Commando Depot (Commando Badic Training Centre), Achnacarry. Fusilier Portwain was reported missing 26 February 1943 during operations in Tunisia, North Africa (Battle of Steamroller Farm), later found to be a prisoner of war. Member of the Commando Association from Nash Mills, Hemel Hempstead.
Prison Camps
17.03.1943 - 14.08.1943 Camp PG66.
17.08.1943 - 20.09.1943 Camp PG53.
24.09.1943 - 01.11.1943 Stalag VIIA.
04.11.1943 - 02.04.1945 Stalag XVIIA.

Sources
Casualty Lists / National Archives files WO417/58 (1943), WO417/60 (1943), WO417/95 (1945).
Prisoners of War / National Arcives files WO392/1 and WO392/21.

Dir. of Mil. Int.: Liberated Prisoner of War Interrogation Questionnaire 1945/6 / National Archives file WO344/256/1.
Deatils of operation on Linked Content below
The 1939 Register covering St. Pancras.
Commando Association newsletter 81 (1985) and obituaries in 111 (2000).

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