SMALE, Kenneth William Ridley
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Rank:
Lieutenant (later Lieutenant Colonel)
Unit / Base:
40RM Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Marines
Service:
Royal Navy
P.O.W. number:
4055
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Born:
Saturday, May 8, 1920
Kenneth William Ridley Smale joined the Royal Marines on 1 January 1939 and after training was posted to 2RM Battalion. He joined the RM Commando (later redesignated as 40RM Commando) on 8 May 1942. Lieutenant Smale was awarded the Military Cross for bravery, endurance and inspiring devotion to duty whilst serving in Commando operations in the raid on Dieppe, 19 August, 1942, after which he was a prisoner of war in Germany, August 1942—May 1945.
Source
Navy Lists.
40RM Commando War Diary.
London Gazette 37387, page 6085.
Prisoners of War / National Archives file WO392/7.
Dir. of Mil. Int.: Liberated Prisoner of War Interrogation Questionnaire 1945/6 / National Archives file WO344/291/1.
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