VOWLES, Richard Guy
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Rank:
Corporal
Unit / Base:
4 Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Army Service Corps
Service:
Army
Number:
T 180262
P.O.W. number:
25788
P.O.W. camps:
Born:
Saturday, December 30, 1911
Died:
1986
Place died:
Devon
Corporal Richard Guy Vowles, aged 31 and from York, was captured at Dieppe on 19 August 1942 and was a prisoner of war until liberated in 1945. He had initially been wrongly reported by the War Office as killed in action and this was published in the local newspapers. In October 1942 the family were informed that he was alive and a prisoner of war. Post war member of the Commando Association from Tiverton, Devon.
Sources
Casualty Lists / National Archives files WO417/49 (kia), WO417/52 (pow), and WO417/91 (home).
Prisoners of War / National Archives files WO392/1.
Obituaries in Commando Association newsletter 83 issued Sept. 1986.
Register of Deaths for Mid Devon in 1986.
Report in the Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer published 28 August 1942.
Report in the Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer 03 October 1942.
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