COCHRANE, John Paul
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Rank:
Lieutenant
Unit / Base:
'Small Scale Raiding Force'
'Special Air Service'
Regiment/Corps:
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Toronto Scottish Regiment
Service:
Army
Service Number:
254800
P.O.W. number:
989
P.O.W. camps:
Born:
Tuesday, March 24, 1914
Birthplace:
Bronte, Ontario
Canadian soldier posted to England in 1940. Served with No. 1 Small Scale Raiding Force in the Mediterranean including Operation Snapdragon at Pantellaria setting off on the submarine H.M.S. Unshaken from Malta on 24 May 1943. Reported missing 1 July 1943 during Operation Hawthorn, a raid on airfields at Sardinia. Later confirmed captured by the Italians. Prisoner of war until May 1945 spending most of that time at Oflag 79.
Sources
Casualty Lists / National Archives files WO417/5 and 9.
Prisoners of war / National Archives file WO392/1.
German Record Cards of PoWs / National Archives file WO 416/70/400.
IWM 19040 John Cochrane Collection.
Brian Lett, The Small Scale Raiding Force.
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