IVES, Edwin Isaac

Rank: 
Company Quartermaster Sergeant
Unit / Base: 
'Layforce'
Regiment/Corps: 
Scots Guards
Service: 
Army
Number: 
2694795
P.O.W. number: 
12466
Born: 
Sunday, October 17, 1915
Birthplace: 
Holmer Green, Buckinghamshire
16.04.1934 enlisted Scots Guards aged 18.
01.11.1940 attached 52 Middle East Commando
28.03.1941 Geneifa, Company Quartermaster Sergeant, 'D' Bn. Layforce.
02.06.1941 prisoner of war Crete.
15.04.1946 released to Royal Army Reserve Class 'Z'.
29.01.1948 rejoined the Colours from RAR to Scots Guards.
24.11.1952 transferred to R.A.O.C.
 
Sources
Scots Guards Service Record online at FMP.
52 Middle East Commando War Diary 28 March 1941 (List of Officers for 'D' Bn).
Casualty Lists / National Archives files WO417/27, WO417/30, WO417/94.
Prisoners of War / National Archives file WO392/1.
German Record Cards of British PoWs / National Archives file WO416/192/471.
 
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