BACON, Walter

Primary tabs

Rank: 
Marine
Unit / Base: 
40RM Commando
Regiment/Corps: 
Royal Marines
Service: 
Royal Navy
Number: 
EX 3144
P.O.W. camps: 
Stalag VIII-B (8B)(Stalag 344), Lamsdorf Poland
Stalag VII-B (7B), Memingen, Germany
Born: 
Wednesday, July 9, 1919
Walter Bacon, a Warehouse Employee from Bradford, enlisted into the Royal Marines on 22 February 1940. He volunteered in 1942 for the first Royal Marine Commando unit to be formed. Marine Bacon was captured 19 August 1942 during Operation Jubilee at Dieppe, France.
 
Sources
Dir. of Mil. Int.: Liberated Prisoner of War Interrogation Questionnaire 1945/6 / National Archives file WO344/13/1.
RM Prisoners of War in Germany / National Archives file ADM201/111.
 
Additional content: 
Dieppe - Operation Jubilee
Archive pages : 
40RM Commando
Prisoners of War

Ask Questions / Add Information / Add Photos

Use the Archive Forum for research enquiries, or to add information or photos. [register now]. 
Read some frequently asked questions here [FAQ's].
Contact the Archive via the [contact form].
 
All content is researched and administered by the Commando Veterans Archive.