HACK, Ronald Roger Louis
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Rank:
Private
Unit / Base:
3 Commando
Prior Police Service:
Kingswood Police Station Gloucestershire
Regiment/Corps:
Gloucestershire Regiment
Service:
Army
Number:
14317745
P.O.W. number:
6118
Born:
Wednesday, June 30, 1915
Birthplace:
Somerset
Died :
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Place died:
Cromer, Norfolk
Age:
93
Private Ronald Hack, 6 Troop, was reported missing 14 July 1943 during operations in Sicily at Agnone and the bridge at Malati (3 Commando Bridge), later found to have been captured and a prisoner of war.
Police Constable Ronald Roger Hack served at the Police Station in High Street, Kingswood, in 1939. He volunteered for the Commandos enlisting into the Armed Forces on 15 October 1942 joining the 3rd Police Intake to the Commando Depot (Commando Basic Training Centre) at Achnacarry. Post war member of the Commando Association residing Cromer, Norfolk.
Sources
Casualty Lists / National Archives files WO417/66 (1943) and WO417/94 (1945).
Prisoners of War / National Archives files WO392/1.
German Record Cards of British PoWs / National Archives file WO416/155/282.
Dir. of Mil. Int.: Liberated Prisoner of War Interrogation Questionnaire 1945/6 / National Archives file WO344/128/1.
The 1939 Register covering Kingswood, Gloucs.
Commando Association newsletter 107 (1998).
Registers of Deaths in Cromer Norfolk, 2008.
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