DEWICK, Holford Simpson

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Rank: 
Marine
Unit / Base: 
40RM Commando
Regiment/Corps: 
Royal Marines
Service: 
Royal Navy
Number: 
PO/X4736
P.O.W. number: 
26504
P.O.W. camps: 
Marlag and Milag Nord, Westertimke, Germany
Stalag VIII-C (8C), Sagan, Poland
Born: 
Thursday, June 29, 1922
Died: 
1995
Place died: 
Liverpool
Dewick 40RM Commando
Marine Holford Dewick, aged 20 and from Clubmoor in Liverpool, was captured during operations at Dieppe, France.

Sources
RM Prisoners of War / National Archives file ADM201/111 (M&MN) and WO392/7 (Stalag 8C). 
German Record Cards of British POWs / National Archives file WO416/95/414 (Closed until Jan. 2023).
Image and report in the Liverpool Echo 20 October 1942.
 
Additional content: 
Dieppe - Operation Jubilee
Archive pages : 
40RM Commando
Prisoners of War

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