PREECE, Francis Henry
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Rank:
Private
Unit / Base:
2 Independent Company
Regiment/Corps:
Welch Regiment, 4th Bn.
Service:
Army
Service Number:
3964629
Service Record:
WO422 ref. Apv000987271
P.O.W. number:
13139
P.O.W. camps:
Born:
Tuesday, October 29, 1918
Francis Henry Preece, a Railway Porter from Cardiff, enlisted 16 October 1939. Volunteered for the Independent Companies when they were raised in April 1940. Posted No.2 Independent Company 2 May 1940. Embarked with Expeditionary Force to Norway 10 May 1940. Reported missing in action 26 May 1940 at Pothus, Norway, later confirmed a prisoner of war. Returned to UK 11 May 1945. Class 'A' Release 13 May 1946.
Sources
No.2 Independent Coy. War Diary Casualty lists.
Casualty Lists / National Archives files WO417/13, 19, and 93.
Dir. of Mil. Int.: Liberated Prisoner of War Interrogation Questionnaire 1945/6 / National Archives file WO344/258/1.
Service Record / National Archives file WO422 / Ancestry.
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