EDWARDS, Denis Gold
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Rank:
Private
Unit / Base:
5 Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Worcestershire Regiment
Service:
Army
Number:
5253147
P.O.W. number:
18716
P.O.W. camps:
Born:
Sunday, June 16, 1918
Birthplace:
Pengam, Wales
Operations:
Denis Edwards from Coventry enlisted 15 July 1939. Previously employed as a Fitter in a motor car factory. Private Edwards was reported missing 28 March 1942 after Operation Charot at St Nazaire, later found to have been wounded and taken prisoner of war. Embarked on HMS Campbeltown for the raid.
Sources
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/49.
Prisoners of War / National Archives file WO392/11.
German Record Cards of British PoW's / National Archives file WO416/109/104 (Marlag and Milag Nord).
Dir. of Mil. Int.: Liberated Prisoner of War Interrogation Questionnaire 1945/6 / National Archives file WO344/100/1.
St Nazaire Society.
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