RICHARDSON, Peter Lingwood
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Rank:
Lance Bombardier
Unit / Base:
7 Commando
'Layforce'
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Artillery
Service:
Army
Number:
908598
P.O.W. number:
153741
P.O.W. camps:
Born:
Friday, March 18, 1921
Died :
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Age:
89
Lance Bombardier Peter Richardson from Banstead, Surrey, was reported missing 19th April 1941 during operations at Cyrenaica (Bardia Raid), later found to be a prisoner of war.
Civil occupation - Bank Clerk.
Enlisted Territorial Army 1st May 1939.
Mobilised 1st September 1939.
Mobilised 1st September 1939.
Volunteered for and attached No.7 Commando 1940.
Prison Camps
19.04.1941 to 13.11.1941 Camp in Benghazi (no number).
01.01.1942 to 24.01.1943 Camp PG59, Italy.
24.01.1943 to 15.09.1943 Camp PG53, Italy.
04.11.1943 to 01.04.1945 Camp XV11A, Austria.
Sources
Casualty Lists / National Archives files WO417/24, 30, and 94.
Prisoners of War / National Archives files WO392/1 and WO392/21.
Dir. of Mil. Int.: Liberated Prisoner of War Interrogation Questionnaire 1945/6 / National Archives file WO344/267/2.
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