NAGEL, Peter Thomas Lorenz

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Served as : 
4272711 WALKER, Peter
Rank: 
Private
Unit / Base: 
2 Commando
Regiment/Corps: 
Pioneer Corps
Royal Northumberland Fusiliers (for alias)
Service: 
Army
Number: 
13801753
4272711
P.O.W. number: 
18742
P.O.W. camps: 
Stalag VIII-B (8B)(Stalag 344), Lamsdorf Poland
Born: 
Saturday, January 29, 1916
Birthplace: 
Berlin Germany
Died : 
Friday, September 30, 1983
Peter Nagel
Private Peter Nagel was of the Jewish Faith and served under an alias of Peter Walker for Operation Chariot, the raid at St. Nazaire 28 March 1942. He embarked on MGB 314 and was taken prisoner after the raid. Although Peter was attached to No.2 Commando he had received training for the Special Operations Executive. He had also taken part in Operation Biting, a Para operation at Bruneval France, being specifically selected for his training and language skills.
  • Prisoner of War Records list 4272711 Fusilier P. Walker, Northumberland Fusiliers, imprisoned at Stalag 344 in Poland.
  • Casualty Lists record him as Wounded and Prisoner of War 28 March 1942.
  • Post war Naturalisation Certificate: Peter Thomas Lorenz Nagel. From Germany. Resident in London. Certificate AZ19749 issued 25 September 1946.
Sources
St. Nazaire Society website.
Prisoners of War Records / National Archives files WO392/1 and WO392/11.
Casualty Lists / National Archives files WO417/45 amended by WO417/48, WO417/93 and WO417/94.
Special Operations Executive Personnel Records / National Archives file HS 9/1084/2.
Home Office Internees Records - Exemption from Internment / National Archives file HO 396/64/44.
Naturalisation Certificate / National Archives file HO 334/165/19749.
Article in Military Historical Society Bulletin, February 2009 edition, author Martin Sugarman (BA (Hons), Cert.Ed., Archivist of the Jewish Military Museum of AJEX (Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Women of the UK)
 
Notes
The second service number is noted in the article above as being a false one provided for his alias.
 
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No 2 Commando
St Nazaire Commandos
Prisoners of War

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