WILLS, Herbert Charles

Rank: 
Private
Unit / Base: 
3 Commando
Regiment/Corps: 
Devonshire Regiment
Service: 
Army
Number: 
5613511
P.O.W. number: 
25875
Died : 
Saturday, October 30, 1943
Died on war service
Age: 
36
Private Herbert Wills was reported missing during operations at Dieppe on 19 August 1942 and  later found to have become a prisoner of war. He was transported to Stalag 344 in Poland where he later died. Cause of death is not known to this archive.
 
Sources
CWGC.
Prisoners of War / National Archives file WO392/1.
Casualty Records / National Archives files WO417/ 49, 52 and 69,
ROH in Commando-Memoirs of a Fighting Commando in WW2 by Brig Durnford-Slater.
 
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