OPOCZYNSKI, Abraham
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Served as :
ORR, Adam
Rank:
Sergeant
Unit / Base:
'Small Scale Raiding Force'
Regiment/Corps:
Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment
Pioneer Corps
Service:
Army
Number:
6387010
13801810
P.O.W. number:
19153
Honours & Awards:
Died :
Thursday, April 12, 1945
Killed in action or died of wounds
Age:
23
Cemetery/Memorial:
Served under an alias. Special Operations Executive attached Small Scale Raiding Force for Operation Aquatint during which he was taken prisoner. 1945 reported missing whilst in captivity, later presumed killed in action. Recommended for the Military Medal, awarded posthumous Mention in Despatches. Son of Hirsh and Yetta Opoczynski; nephew of Mr. L. Spiro, of Forest Gate, Essex.
Sources
CWGC.
SOE File / National Archives file HS 9/1123/8.
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/63.
German Record Cards of PoW / National Archives file WO416/278/100 (middle name Alfred) (Front Stalag 133).
Prisoners of War / National Archives files WO392/1 and WO392/11.
Prisoners of war presumed dead / National Archives file WO361/777.
MiD - London Gazette 38079, page 4517.
War Office correspondence/documents sold online.
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