MAKEHAM, Reginald Henry
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Rank:
Private
Unit / Base:
2 Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Gordon Highlanders
Service:
Army
Number:
841059
Born:
Wednesday, January 28, 1914
Birthplace:
Ipswich
Died :
Friday, October 23, 1942
Executed
Age:
28
Cemetery/Memorial:
Operations:
Private Reginald Makeham, 6 troop, was one of the seven men of No. 2 Commando who were captured after Operation Musketoon, and later executed under Hitler's Commando Execution Order, at Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp, Berlin, 1942. Son of Reginald Linnel Makeham and Mary Susan Janet Hope Makeham; husband of R. Makeham, of Keswick, Cumberland.
Sources
CWGC.
Killing of British POWs Germany after capture in Norway Operation Musketoon / National Archives file WO311/382.
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