DAW, Herbert Frank

Rank: 
Corporal
Unit / Base: 
3 Commando
Regiment/Corps: 
Royal Sussex Regiment
Service: 
Army
Number: 
14241846
P.O.W. number: 
6720
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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