MAXWELL, Kenneth Horton
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Rank:
Lieutenant
Unit / Base:
7 Commando
'Layforce'
Regiment/Corps:
Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
Service:
Army
Number:
87670
P.O.W. number:
1998
P.O.W. camps:
Honours & Awards:
Born:
Wednesday, January 31, 1917
Kenneth Horton Maxwell, a Merchant from Oxton in Birkenhead, Cheshire, enlisted into the Armed Forces August 1939. He volunteered for commando service and was attached to No.7 Commando embarking with them for the Middle East, his Commando forming 'A' Battalion of Layforce. Prisoner of war 1 June 1941 at Crete. Initially detained in Athens at the former British General Hospital suffering from concussion, then a Transit Camp, and Averoff Prison Athens.
- 18 September 1964 Lieutenant (Camerons) awarded the Territorial Efficiency Decoration.
Sources
Casualty Lists / National Archives files 2 and 9.
Prisoners of War / National Archives files WO392/1 and 21.
Dir. of Mil. Int.: Liberated Prisoner of War Interrogation Questionnaire 1945/6 / National Archives file WO344/215/2.
Award - London Gazette 43438, page 7922.
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