BATEMAN, Sidney Gordon
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Rank:
Bombardier
Unit / Base:
7 Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Artillery
Service:
Army
Number:
930701
P.O.W. number:
95921
P.O.W. camps:
Born:
Friday, September 13, 1912
Sidney Bateman, a Covent Garden Wholesale Salesman from London, enlisted 18 December 1939. Volunteered in 1940 for the commandos and attached to No.7 Commando. Embarked with Layforce for operations in the Middle East. Bombardier Bateman was reported missing 2 June 1941 at Crete, later confirmed slightly wounded and a prisoner of war. Post war member of the Commando Association from Bedfordshire.
Sources
Casualty Lists / National Archives files WO417/30.
Prisoners of War / National Archives file WO392/1.
Sources
Casualty Lists / National Archives files WO417/30.
Prisoners of War / National Archives file WO392/1.
Dir. of Mil. Int.: Liberated Prisoner of War Interrogation Questionnaire 1945/6 / National Archives file WO344/20/2.
RA Attestations Register 1939.
Obituaries in Commando Association newsletter 82 issued March 1986.
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