DEWICK, Holford Simpson

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Rank: 
Marine
Unit / Base: 
40RM Commando
Regiment/Corps: 
Royal Marines
Service: 
Royal Navy
Service Number: 
PO/X4736
P.O.W. number: 
26504
P.O.W. camps: 
Stalag VIII-B (8B)(Stalag 344), Lamsdorf Poland
Stalag VIII-C (8C), Sagan, Poland
Marlag and Milag Nord, Westertimke, Germany
Born: 
Thursday, June 29, 1922
Died: 
1995
Place died or last resided: 
Liverpool
Holford Dewick RM Commando
Holford Simpson Dewick, a Labourer from Clubmoor, Liverpool, enlisted into the Royal Marines 20 January 1940. Marine Dewick, attached to The RM Commando (later re-designated 40RM Commando) was captured and a prisoner of war 19 August 1942 during operations at Dieppe.
POW Timeline
01.09.1942 - 20.08.1943 Stalag VIIIB, Lamsdorf.
20.08.1943 - 03.10.1944 Stalag VIIIC Work Camp 4010, Breslau.
05.10.1944 - liberation Marlag and Milag Nord, Bremen.

Sources
Dir. of Mil. Int.: Liberated Prisoner of War Interrogation Questionnaire 1945/6 / National Archives file WO344/90/2.
RM Prisoners of War / National Archives file ADM201/111 (M&MN) and WO392/7 (Stalag 8C). 
German Record Cards of British POWs / National Archives file WO416/95/414 (Closed until Jan. 2023).
Image and report in the Liverpool Echo 20 October 1942.
 
Additional content: 
Dieppe - Operation Jubilee
Archive pages : 
40RM Commando
Prisoners of War

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