DAW, Herbert Frank

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Rank: 
Corporal
Unit / Base: 
3 Commando
Prior Police Service: 
2nd Police Intake
Regiment/Corps: 
Royal Sussex Regiment
Service: 
Army
Number: 
14241846
P.O.W. number: 
6720
P.O.W. camps: 
Camp PG66, Capua, Italy
Camp PG73, Fossoli di Carpi, Modena, Italy
Stalag XVIII-A (18A), Wolfsberg Austria
Stalag XVIII-B (18B) (later Stalag 334), Menkendorf, Germany
Born: 
Thursday, November 10, 1921
Herbert Frank Daw from Sussex volunteered for the Commandos enlisting 23 July 1942 joining the 2nd Police Intake to the Commando Depot (Commando Basic Training Centre) located at Achnacarry. Lance Corporal Daw was was reported missing 14 July 1943 during operations with No.3 Commando at Agnone, Sicily, and Malati Bridge (3 Commando Bridge), later found to be a prisoner of war.
Prison Camps
18.07.1943 - 28.08.1943. Camp PG66.
28.08.1943 - 11.09.1943 Camp PG73.
11.09.1943 - 27.04.1945 Stalag XVIIIA.
27.04.1945 - 09.05.1945 Stalag XVIIIB.
Extract from Commando Association newsletter 68.
Recently retired from full-time work as Clerk of Cheltenham Rural District Council, we congratulate ex-Cpl. Herbert Daw (3 Cdo) on his installation to the honorary ancient appointment of Borough Chamberlain of Tewkesbury, for his services to the re-organisation of local government in Gloucestershire.
 
Sources
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/65.
Prisoners of War / National Archives file WO392/1.
German Record Cards of British PoWs / National Archives file WO416/91/231.
* Dir. of Mil. Int.: Liberated PoW Interrogation Questionnaire 1945/6 / National Archives file WO344/86/1 (below).
Commando Association newsletter 68 (1979).
Report on his wedding in the the Kent & Sussex Courier 08 January 1943 (linked content below).
 
Notes
The 1939 Register shows him as a shop assistant residing Burwash, Battle, Sussex.
Photo below is an extract from PoW Questionnaire in sources. Details of Police Service not known but it is thought he may have been a Special or War Reserve Constable.
Additional content: 
DAW, Herbert Frank (No.3 Cdo), newspaper report on wedding
3 Commando at Sicily and Malati Bridge’
Archive pages : 
No 3 Commando
Prisoners of War

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