JARVIS, Charles Jack
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Rank:
Rifleman
Unit / Base:
2 Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Ulster Rifles
Service:
Army
Number:
7014212
P.O.W. number:
18719
Born:
Sunday, October 3, 1920
Birthplace:
Waterford
Operations:
Rifleman Jarvis, 3 Troop, embarked on HMS Campbeltown for the raid at St. Nazaire on 28 March 1942. Reported wounded and missing, later found to be a prisoner of war.
Sources
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/44 and 48.
Prisoners of War 1715-1945 / National Archives file WO392/1 and WO392/11.
German Record Cards of British POWs / National Archives file WO416/195/295.
St. Nazaire Society website.
Notes on initials/forenames
CasList WO417/44 shows initial as 'C' however this was later amended to 'G'. The German Record Cards of British POWs / National Archives file WO416/195/295 show this man as 7014212 Rifleman Charles Jack Jarvis, Royal Ulster Rifles, born 3 October 1920 in Waterford. In the August 1941 photo of 3 Troop No.2 Commando there is a Private Jack Jarvis named but not identified.
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