EYEINGTON, Maurice
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Rank:
Lance Corporal
Unit / Base:
52ME Commando
'Layforce'
Regiment/Corps:
Yorkshire Hussars, Royal Armoured Corps
Service:
Army
Service Number:
323758
Service Record:
WO422 / Apv000243251
P.O.W. number:
12268
P.O.W. camps:
Born:
Wednesday, June 2, 1920
Birthplace:
Bootham, York
Enlisted Yorkshire Hussars 19 April 1939. Embarked for Middle East January 1940. Posted 52 Middle East Commando 1 November 1940. Entered Sudan 20 December 1940. Entered Egypt 6 March 1941. Posted 'D' Battalion Layforce 24 March 1941. Disembarked Crete 25 May 1941. Reported missing on 2 June 1941 later confirmed prisoner of war on 1 June 1941. Repatriated UK 29 May 1945. Released to Reserve List 25 July 1946.
Sources
Service Record on Ancestry.
Casualty Lists / National Archives files WO417/28, 31, 72, and 94.
Prisoners of War / National Archives files WO392/1
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