FYFE, Charles Alexander
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Known as:
Jock
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Unit / Base:
2 Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Corps of Signals
Service:
Army
Service Number:
2591013
P.O.W. number:
18592
Born:
Monday, December 6, 1915
Birthplace:
Aberdeen
Operations:
Lance Corporal Charles Fyfe, a Signaller in No.2 Commando HQ, was reported missing 28 March 1942 after Operation Chariot at St. Nazaire, later found to be a prisoner of war. He had embarked on HMS Campbeltown. Charles, married and from Glasgow, was an electrical engineer in civil life.
Sources
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/43.
Prisoners of War / National Archives file WO392/1.
German Record Cards of British POWs / National Archives file WO416/131/261.
Commando Benevolent Fund list of No.2 Cdo.
St Nazaire Society website.
St Nazaire Society website.
[Image 1] Article in the Aberdeen Evening Express 24 April 1942.
[Image 2] Cropped from the photo in Gallery titled 'St Nazaire Raid Commando veterans on HM Yacht Britannia April 1982'.
Photo of Commando in Gallery:
Yes
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