WHITE, George Wood

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Rank: 
Corporal
Unit / Base: 
7 Commando
'Layforce'
'Special Air Service'
Regiment/Corps: 
Royal Scots
Service: 
Army
Service Number: 
3056528
Service Record: 
WO422 / Apv000575939
P.O.W. number: 
2598004
P.O.W. camps: 
Camp PG52, Pian de Coreglia, Chiavari, Italy
Stalag IV-G (4G), Oschatz, Saxony, Germany
Stalag VIII-B (8B)(Stalag 344), Lamsdorf Poland
Born: 
Sunday, November 23, 1913
Birthplace: 
Dunbar
Cpl. George Wood White No.7 Commando and SAS
Service Record
26.04.1939 resided Dalkeith, Scotland. Enlisted 7/9th Bn., The Royal Scots.
25.10.1939 appointed Lance Corporal.
08.06.1940 appointed Acting Corporal.
08.09.1940 granted war substantive rank of Corporal.
11.11.1940 posted 3 Special Service Battalion.
31.01.1941 posted No.7 Commando (Special Service Brigade restructuring). Embarked for service overseas arriving Alexandria, Egypt. No.7 Commando now 'A' Battalion of Layforce.
02.05.1941 admitted to hospital 
18.07.1941 attached to Depot Commando, Middle East.
Attached 'L' Detachment, Special Air Service Brigade.
30.12.1941 'L' Detachment SAS; prisoner of war Western Desert, Egypt. Repatriated UK 1945.
20.03.1946 released to Reserve List.
 
Sources
Service Record on Ancestry.
Casualty Lists / National Archives files WO417/38, 39, and 96
Prisoners of War / National Archives files WO392/1, 11, and 21.
[Image] Edinburgh Evening News, 6 March 1942, p4.
 
Archive pages : 
No 7 Commando
Layforce
Special Air Service
Prisoners of War

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