CURTIS, Eric Gordon
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Rank:
Private
Unit / Base:
2 Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Queens Own Royal West Kent
Service:
Army
Number:
6349613
Born:
Monday, October 24, 1921
Birthplace:
London
Died :
Friday, October 23, 1942
Executed
Age:
20
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Operations:
Private Eric Gordon Curtis was one of the seven men of No. 2 Commando who were captured after Operation Musketoon. He was executed on 23 October 1942, the day before his 21st birthday, at Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp under Hitler's Commando Execution Order. Son of Frederick William and May Curtis, of Catford, London.
Sources
CWGC.
Nazi persecution claim: Mrs Ellen Eliza Chudley for Mr William Henry Albert Chudley / Foreign Office file FO950/3073.
Killing of British POWs Germany after capture in Norway operation Musketoon / National Archives file WO311/382.
CWGC.
Nazi persecution claim: Mrs Ellen Eliza Chudley for Mr William Henry Albert Chudley / Foreign Office file FO950/3073.
Killing of British POWs Germany after capture in Norway operation Musketoon / National Archives file WO311/382.
Report on the Nuremberg trials in the in the Birmingham Gazette 10 January 1946.
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