MEADLEY, George Albert
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Rank:
Sapper
Unit / Base:
7 Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Engineers
Service:
Army
Number:
1888651
P.O.W. camps:
Born:
Friday, January 5, 1912
Died:
1992
Place died:
Durham
Sapper George Meadley from Hartlepool was captured during operations in Crete.
Timeline
29.03.1940, enlisted Royal Engineers.Trade on enlistment - Painter/Decorator.
Timeline
29.03.1940, enlisted Royal Engineers.Trade on enlistment - Painter/Decorator.
11.11.1940, attached 3 Special Service Battalion.
31.01.1941, attached No.7 Commando.
11.03.1941, disembarked Egypt.
01.06.1941, prisoner of war Crete.
15.08.1941 - 18.09.1941, Dulag 183, Salonika, Greece.
25.09.1941, Stalag IVB Germany (including 3 weeks in hospital at Brux with Malaria).
28.12.1941 - 08.05.1945, labourer, Working Camp at Niemes, Sudetenland.
15.08.1941 - 18.09.1941, Dulag 183, Salonika, Greece.
25.09.1941, Stalag IVB Germany (including 3 weeks in hospital at Brux with Malaria).
28.12.1941 - 08.05.1945, labourer, Working Camp at Niemes, Sudetenland.
Sources
RE Tracer Card.
Casualty Lists / National Archives files WO417/30.
Prisoners of War / National Archives file WO392/1.
Dir. of Mil. Int.: Liberated Prisoner of War Interrogation Questionnaire 1945/6 / National Archives file WO344/216/1.
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