SPALL, Claude William
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Rank:
Driver
Unit / Base:
2 Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Army Service Corps
Service:
Army
Number:
T/193292
P.O.W. number:
135264
P.O.W. camps:
Born:
Wednesday, February 18, 1920
Birthplace:
Lowestoft
Driver Claude Spall was reported missing 6 June 1944 during operations at Brac, Yugoslavia, later confirmed as a prisoner of war. At this time a small number of commandos from No.2 were engaged in a failed attempt to locate and liberate their Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Colonel 'Jack' Churchill, who had been captured during Operation Flounced on the island of Brac a few days earlier.
Sources
No.2 Commando War Diary List of twelve commandos missing after Operation Flounced at Brac.
Casualty Lists 1939-45 / National Archives files WO417/77, 82, and 94.
Prisoners of War / National Archives file WO392/11.
Sources
No.2 Commando War Diary List of twelve commandos missing after Operation Flounced at Brac.
Casualty Lists 1939-45 / National Archives files WO417/77, 82, and 94.
Prisoners of War / National Archives file WO392/11.
German Record Cards of British POWs / National Archives file WO416/338/547..
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