CODD, Lawrence Joseph
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Rank:
Signalman
Unit / Base:
11 Commando
2 Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Corps of Signals
Service:
Army
Service Number:
2332748
P.O.W. number:
135269
P.O.W. camps:
Born:
Friday, December 5, 1919
Birthplace:
Scotland
Died :
Thursday, August 8, 1957
Signalman Lawrence Codd, No.2 Commando, was reported missing 6 June 1944, later found to be a prisoner of war. At this time a small number of commandos from No.2 Commando were engaged in a failed attempt to locate and liberate their Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Colonel 'Jack' Churchill, who had been captured during Operation Flounced on the island of Brac a few days earlier.
- Previously served in No.11 Commando.
- Post war member of the Commando Association who died suddenly in 1957.
Sources
Casualty Lists / National Archives files WO417/77, 82 and 95.
Prisoners of War / National Archives file WO392/1.
German Record Cards of British PoWs / National Archives file WO416/71/51.
Obituaries in Commando Association newsletter 26 (1958).
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