DAW, Herbert Frank
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Rank:
Corporal
Unit / Base:
3 Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Sussex Regiment
Service:
Army
Number:
14241846
P.O.W. number:
6720
P.O.W. camps:
Born:
Thursday, November 10, 1921
Lance Corporal Herbert Daw was was reported missing 14 July 1943 during operations at Agnone, Sicily, and Malati Bridge (3 Commando Bridge), later found to be a prisoner of war.
Extract from Commando Association newsletter 68.
Recently retired from full-time work as Clerk of Cheltenham Rural District Council, we congratulate ex-Cpl. Herbert Daw (3 Cdo) on his installation to the honorary ancient appointment of Borough Chamberlain of Tewkesbury, for his services to the re-organisation of local government in Gloucestershire.
Sources
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/65.
Prisoners of War / National Archives file WO392/1.
German Record Cards of British PoWs / National Archibves file WO416/91/231.
Commando Association newsletter 68 (1979).
Notes
The 1939 Register shows him as a shop assistant residing Burwash, Battle, Sussex.
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