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BROWN, Jack

Trooper
326038
Middle East Commando
'Layforce'
Royal Armoured Corps Yorkshire Hussars
Mentioned in Despatches
Killed in action or died of wounds
Trooper Jack Brown, 'D' Bn., Layforce, was reported missing 2 June 1941 at Crete, later found to be a prisoner of war.

HUMPHRIES, Joseph

Marine
CH/X 103795
Royal Marines
Mentioned in Despatches
Killed in action or died of wounds
Marine Joseph Humphries was taken prisoner in the Dieppe Raid. He was one of a work party at Lamsdorf POW Camp who escaped and were shot. The headstone at his Grave states "Royal Marines" followed by "Commando".

THOMAS, Norman

Private
6088017
52ME Commando
'Layforce'
The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) 2nd Bn.
Died whilst a prisoner of war
Private Thomas, 'D' Battalion of Layforce, was reported missing in action in Crete 2 June 1941, later confirmed died whilst a prisoner of war in a German Reserve Hospital (Lazarette) at Bilina in occupied Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia.

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