COLLETT, Harry Burke

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Rank: 
Lieutenant
Unit / Base: 
52ME Commando
Regiment/Corps: 
Yorkshire Hussars
Service: 
Army
Service Number: 
117486
P.O.W. number: 
95483
P.O.W. camps: 
Stalag IV-B (4B), Mühlberg, Germany
Oflag VI-B (6B), Warburg, Germany
Oflag VII-B (7B), Eichstaat, Germany
Oflag IV-C (4C), Colditz Castle, Saxony
Born: 
Thursday, July 2, 1908
Birthplace: 
Richmond, Surrey
Died : 
Saturday, April 17, 1993
Place died: 
Orford, Suffolk
Age: 
84
Harry Burke Collett 52 ME Commando
Harry Burke Collett 1940 later 52ME
09.02.1940 commissioned Second Lieutenant, Yorkshire Hussars [1].
02.06.1941 Lieutenant, 52 Middle East Commando ('D' Bn., Layforce), reported wounded and missing in Crete, later confirmed wounded and prisoner of war since 30 May 1941 [2][3][4][5].
03.08.1941 imprisoned at Oflag VIB [6].
---.06.1943 escaped from Oflag VIIB. Recaptured [7].
21.06.1943 imprisoned at Oflag IVC, Colditz [4][7].
26.09.1951 Lieutenant, Yorkshire Hussars, relinquished commission [8].
 
Sources
[1] London Gazette 34787, page 771 (1940).
[2] IWM image of 52ME Cdo. Officers Mess at Tuklien base camp, ref. IWM catalogue ref. HU 68741.
[3] Casualty Lists / National Arcives files WO417/2 and WO417/9.
[4] Prisoners of War / National Archives files WO392/1 and WO392/11 (Oflag 4C)
[5] German Record Cards of British PoWs / National Archives file WO416/72/275 (transcript) (Stalag 4B).
[6] Foreign Office list of PoWs in Germany 1941 / National Archives file FO 916/256 (Oflag 6B).
[7] [Images] His grandson Mark Morreau.
[8] London Gazette 39339, page 4978 (1951).
 
Additional content: 
'Rearguard action on Crete'
Archive pages : 
52ME Commando
Layforce
Prisoners of War

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