HERMON, Kenneth Edward

Rank: 
Captain
Unit / Base: 
'Layforce'
Regiment/Corps: 
Durham Light Infantry
Service: 
Army
Number: 
65941
P.O.W. number: 
3431
Born: 
Thursday, November 11, 1915
Birthplace: 
Horsham, Sussex
Died : 
Friday, December 29, 1978
Place died: 
Carlisle
Age: 
63
28.03.1941 Geneifa, Commanding 'A' Company of 'D' Bn Layforce
04.06.1941 prisoner of war Crete. 
 
Sources
52 Middle East Commando War Diary 28/3/1941 (List of 'D' Bn Layforce Officers).
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/2.
German Record Cards of British PoWs / National Archives file WO416/174/8 (Oflag 10C).
Prisoners of War / National Archives file WO392/1 and WO392/11 (Oflag 4C).
The book 'Middle East Commandos', author Charles Messenger.
 
Additional
'D' Bn. Layforce was formed from No.50 and 52 ME Commandos.
Captain Hermon's father, Lt. Col. Edward William Hermon DSO, Commanding 24th (Tyneside Irish) Bn., 1st King Edward's Horse, was killed in action at Arras 9 April 1917 aged 38. His mother died in 1930 (Sources CWGC and an article on her funeral in the West Sussex Gazette 20 March 1930).
 
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