BAUGH, Basil Lancelot
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Rank:
Acting Temporary Troop Sergeant Major
Unit / Base:
45RM Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Marines
Service:
Royal Navy
Service Number:
PLY/X1067
P.O.W. number:
53312
P.O.W. camps:
Born:
Sunday, March 25, 1934
Basil Lancelot Baugh enlisted into the Royal Marines on 25 May 1934. Corporal (Acting Troop Sergeant Major) Baugh, 1st Special Service Brigade, was wounded and a prisoner of war on 12 June 1944 during operations near the River Orne, Normandy. After a period of 3 months recovery in a German Hospital at Obermasfield he was transferred to a prisoner of war camp.
Sources
[1] RM Prisoners of War / National Archives file ADM201/111.
[2] Dir. of Mil. Int.: Liberated Prisoner of War Interrogation Questionnaire 1945/6 / National Archives file WO344/21/1.
[1] RM Prisoners of War / National Archives file ADM201/111.
[2] Dir. of Mil. Int.: Liberated Prisoner of War Interrogation Questionnaire 1945/6 / National Archives file WO344/21/1.
[3] List of RM Commandos provided by RY (former CA Sec and CBF).
Notes
Unit shown at [2] is 1st Special Service Bde; at [3] is 45RM Cdo. which was part of 1 SS Bde.
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