BLASCO, Vicente

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Known as: 
Vincent
Rank: 
Lance Corporal
Unit / Base: 
50ME Commando
'Layforce'
Regiment/Corps: 
Queen's Royal Regiment
Service: 
Army
Number: 
6100545
P.O.W. number: 
12353
P.O.W. camps: 
Stalag 111-D (3D), Berlin-Steglitz Germany
Stalag IV-G (4G), Oschatz, Saxony, Germany
Born: 
Wednesday, April 25, 1917
Vicente Blasco was a Spanish volunteer who enlisted on 9 September 1940. Lance Corporal Blasco, No.50 Middle East Commando, attached to 'D' Bn. Layforce, was reported missing 2 June 1941 during operations in Crete, later found to be a prisoner of war since 1 June 1941.
 
Sources
Casualty Lists  / National Archives files WO417/28 and WO417/35..
Prisoners of War / National Archives files WO392/10 and WO392/20.
German Record Cards of British POWs / National Archives file WO416/32/472.
Dir. of Mil. Int.: Liberated Prisoner of War Interrogation Questionnaire 1945/6 / National Archives file WO344/31/1.
 
Additional content: 
'Rearguard action on Crete'
'Volunteers from Spain, 50 ME Commando'
Archive pages : 
50ME Commando
Layforce
Prisoners of War

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