YOUNG, John Galbraith

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Rank: 
Gunner
Unit / Base: 
3 Commando
Regiment/Corps: 
Royal Artillery
Service: 
Army
Number: 
1132664
P.O.W. number: 
25191
P.O.W. camps: 
Stalag VIII-B (8B)(Stalag 344), Lamsdorf Poland
Stalag XIII-D (13D), Nurnberg, Germany
Born: 
Saturday, February 16, 1918
John Galbraith Young, a Bricklayer from Paisley, Scotland, enlisted on 4 December 1941. He volunteered for Special Service and was attached to No.3 Commando. Gunner Young was reported missing 19 August 1942 during Operation Jubilee at Dieppe, France, later confirmed prisoner of war.
 
Sources
Dir. of Mil. Int.: Liberated Prisoner of War Interrogation Questionnaire 1945/6 / National Archives file WO344/358/2.
Casualty Lists / National Archives files WO417/49 and 53.
Prisoners of War / National Archives files WO392/1 and 11.
 
Additional content: 
Dieppe - Operation Jubilee
Archive pages : 
No 3 Commando
Prisoners of War

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