FAJARDO, Joaquin
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Rank:
Private
Unit / Base:
50ME Commando
'Layforce'
Regiment/Corps:
Queen's Royal Regiment
Service:
Army
Service Number:
6100512
P.O.W. number:
96158
P.O.W. camps:
Born:
Friday, March 7, 1919
Private Joaquin Fajardo, a Spanish volunteer attached to 'D' Bn. Layforce, was reported missing in Crete on 2 June 1941; found to have been captured the previous day and a prisoner of war until liberated in 1945. He had enlisted 14 August 1940, civil occupation Farmer.
Settled in London postwar. His 2 elder brothers, Manuel and Anthony, were killed post war fighting against Franco (Manuel Fajardo 26.8.1951) and (Antonio Fajardo 6.6.1952.)*
Sources
Casualty Lists 1939-45 / National Archives files WO417/28, WO417/34, and WO417/96.
Prisoners of War Lists, Second World War, 1943-1945 / National Archives files WO392/20.
Sources
Casualty Lists 1939-45 / National Archives files WO417/28, WO417/34, and WO417/96.
Prisoners of War Lists, Second World War, 1943-1945 / National Archives files WO392/20.
Dir. of Mil. Int.: Liberated Prisoner of War Interrogation Questionnaire 1945/6 / National Archives file WO344/105/2.
*Details provided by Tony Fajardo to the late John Robertson, founder of the Special Service ROH website.
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