CRAMPTON, Jack Barraclough

Rank: 
Lance Corporal
Unit / Base: 
7 Commando
'Layforce'
Regiment/Corps: 
Royal Engineers
Service: 
Army
Number: 
1892271
P.O.W. number: 
95705
Born: 
Tuesday, June 3, 1919
Birthplace: 
Bradford, Yorkshire
Died : 
Monday, September 15, 1941
Died whilst a prisoner of war
Age: 
22
Lance Corporal Jack Crampton, 3 Special Service Bn. died in Berlin as a prisoner of war. He had been reported missing, later found to have been taken prisoner in Crete on 2 June 1941. 
Son of Fred and Beatrice Crampton, of Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire.
 
Sources
CWGC.
Casualty Lists 1939-45 / National Archives files WO417/28 and WO417/33.
German Record Cards of British POWs / National Archives file WO416/81/257.
 
Notes

No. 3 SS Bn. was formed by merging No 4 and 7 Commandos. It was short lived and by Feb 1941 the units had been redesignated back to individual Commando units. However in the interim period on the 31st January 1941, all of No 7 Commando, with some men from No 4 Commando, had sailed for the Middle East as part of Layforce.

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