BOGLE, James
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Known as:
Jim
Rank:
Private
Unit / Base:
11 Commando
'Layforce'
Regiment/Corps:
Gordon Highlanders
Service:
Army
Service Number:
2888381
P.O.W. number:
227535
P.O.W. camps:
Born:
Tuesday, June 1, 1920
Died :
Sunday, October 28, 2018
Age:
98
James Bogle from Glasgow enlisted 27 June 1940 later volunteering for the commandos. He was attached to No.11 Commando and embarked with them for the Middle East as part of Layforce. Private Bogle was was reported missing 24 November 1941 after Operation Flipper, the raid on Rommel's HQ. He was captured at Mechili, Libya, on 26 November 1941. After his release in 1945 he served two years in Germany in the Scottish Rifles*.
Sources
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/36.
Prisoners of War Records / National Archives files WO392/1, WO392/11, and WO392/21.
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/36.
Prisoners of War Records / National Archives files WO392/1, WO392/11, and WO392/21.
Dir. of Mil. Int.: Liberated Prisoner of War Interrogation Questionnaire 1945/6 / National Archives file WO344/32/1.
CVA Obituaries list.
[Image] Alan Bogle (son)*.
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