CHUDLEY, William Henry Albert
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Rank:
Lance Bombardier
Unit / Base:
2 Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Artillery
Service:
Army
Service Number:
882221
Born:
Wednesday, May 10, 1922
Birthplace:
Exeter
Died :
Friday, October 23, 1942
Executed
Age:
20
Cemetery/Memorial:
Operations:
Lance Bombardier William Chudley was one of the seven men of No. 2 Commando who were captured after Operation Musketoon, and later executed under Hitler's Commando Execution Order, at Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp, Berlin, 1942. Son of Richard Henry and Ellen Eliza Chudley, of Exeter.
Sources
CWGC.
CWGC.
Nazi persecution claim: Mrs Ellen Eliza Chudley for Mr William Henry Albert Chudley / Foreign Office file FO950/3057.
Killing of British POWs Germany after capture in Norway operation Musketoon / National Archives file WO311/382.
Killing of British POWs Germany after capture in Norway operation Musketoon / National Archives file WO311/382.
Report on the Nuremberg trials in the Birmingham Gazette 10 January 1946.
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Photo of Commando in Gallery:
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