STOCKS, Douglas

Known as: 
Dougie
Rank: 
Driver i/c
Unit / Base: 
11 Commando
'Layforce'
Regiment/Corps: 
Royal Corps of Signals
Service: 
Army
Number: 
2332752
Dougie Stocks 11 Commando
Driver Dougie Stocks, 'C' Bn Layforce, was reported missing 20 November 1941 during operations in the Western Desert, later confimed as wounded and a prisoner of war in Italian hands. He was repatriated to the UK in 1943. Driver Stocks was from Kirkcaldy, Scotland.
 
Sources
Casualty Lists / National Archives files WO417/36, 40, 46 and 60.
Report in the Fife Free Press, & Kirkcaldy Guardian 08 May 1943 (linked content below).
[Image above] Report in the Fife Free Press, & Kirkcaldy Guardian 10 January 1942.
 
Notes
'C' Bn Layforce was No.11 Commando.
 

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