MONRO, James Neil

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Rank:

Private (Acting Lance Corporal)

Unit / Base:

4 Commando

Regiment/Corps:

Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment

Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

Hampshire Regiment

Service:

Army

Service Number:

5951083

Service Record:

WO422 / Apv000147835

P.O.W. number:

99867

P.O.W. camps:

Stalag Luft 3, Sagan and Belaria, Poland

Born:

Thursday, August 19, 1920

Birthplace:

Schwegu, Burma (Myanmar)

James Neil Monro served in the commandos from July 1940 until December 1941. During that period he took part in the Lofoten Raid with No.4 Commando. No.1 on the Bren Gun. He later joined the Hampshire Regiment and was captured in Italy. Repatriated UK April 1945.

Service timeline
03.08.1939 - attested Beds. and Herts. Regiment, trade on enlistment Jewellers apprentice.

24.02.1940 - 30.05.1940 served with the British Expeditionary Force, France.

18.07.1940 - volunteered for special service. Posted No.4 Commando.

11.11.1940 - posted Special Service Batallion.
11.01.1941 - appointed paid Lance Corporal.

31.01.1941 - posted No.7 Commando.

22.02.1941 - posted No.4 Commando.

01.07.1941 - approved by interview board candidate for OCTU.

26.12.1941 - Private, posted No.3 Infantry Training Centre.

10.02.1942 - posted 30th Bn. Beds & Herts.
19.05.1942 - transferred 2nd Bn. Ox. and Bucks LI (1st Air Landing Bde).

25.11.1942 - posted Hampshire Regiment.

09.09.1943 - Private Monro, 2nd Bn., Hampshire Regiment, was reported missing Italy (Operation Avalanche). Prisoner of war.

23.04.1945 - repatriated to the UK.