BARNETT, Edgar Albert
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Rank:
Lance Bombardier
Unit / Base:
7 Commando
'Layforce'
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Artillery
Service:
Army
Number:
933008
P.O.W. number:
139559
P.O.W. camps:
Born:
Saturday, July 27, 1918
Birthplace:
Birmingham
Edgar Albert Barnett, a Labourer from Birmingham, enlisted into the Armed Forces on 15 July 1939. He volunteered for commando service and was attached to No.7 Commando which embarked for the Middle East forming 'A' Battalion of Layforce. Lance Bombardier Barnett was reported missing 20 April 1941 during operations in Cyrenaica (Bardia raid), later found to be slightly wounded (flesh wound left arm) and a prisoner of war. He escaped from a camp whilst recovering from Pleurisy in Italy on 8 September 1943 after the Italian Armistice. Recaptured by the Germans 24 September 1943
Sources
RA Attestations Register for 1939.
Casualty Lists / National Archives files WO417/24, WO417/27, WO417/91.
Prisoners of War / National Archives files WO392/1 and WO392/21.
German Record Cards of British PoWs / National Archives file WO416/19/371.
Dir. of Mil. Int.: Liberated Prisoner of War Interrogation Questionnaire 1945/6 / National Archives file WO344/18/1.
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