DOCKERILL, Graham Dennis

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Rank: 
Fusilier
Unit / Base: 
Special Service (Commando) Group, Brigade, and Brigade Signals
1 Commando
Prior Police Service: 
Metropolitan Police
Regiment/Corps: 
Royal Fusiliers
Service: 
Army
Number: 
6482233
P.O.W. number: 
225224
P.O.W. camps: 
Camp PG98, San Giuseppe Jato, Sicily
Stalag IV-B (4B), Mühlberg Germany
Stalag IV-D (4D), Torgau, Germany
Born: 
Friday, November 9, 1917
Birthplace: 
London
Died : 
December, 1999
Operations: 
'North Africa - Operation Torch'
Fusilier Graham Dockerill, HQ Special Service Brigade and No.1 Commando, was reported missing 4 March 1943 during operations in North Africa, later found to be a prisoner of war. 
Police Service
Graham was a Metropolitan Police Officer who volunteered for the Commandos in 1942 and was part of the 1st Police Intake to the Commando Depot (Commando Basic Training Centre). He originally joined the Plymouth City Police on 10 March 1938 but then transferred to the Metropolitan Police on 24 July 1939 (PC 615G, warrant number 127981). After the war he returned to the Metropolitan Police resigning voluntarily on 27 November 1949.
 
Sources
Casualty Lists / National Archives files WO417/58, WO417/63.
Prisoners of War / National Archives files WO392/1 (Stalag 4D), WO392/11 (Stalag 4B) and WO417/21 (PG98)
German Record Cards of British PoW's / National Archives file WO416/98/246 (Stalag 4B).
Tony Moore, FRHistS and Police Historian.
Register of Deaths Tunbridge Wells Kent 1999
Government Probate Death Index for Brighton (5 May 2000) no. 411311.
 
Archive pages : 
No 1 Commando
Prisoners of War

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