CASTELLANO PORDO, Francisco
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CASTELLANO, Francisco
Rank:
Private
Unit / Base:
50ME Commando
'Layforce'
Regiment/Corps:
Queen's Royal Regiment
Service:
Army
Service Number:
6100507
P.O.W. number:
96088
P.O.W. camps:
Born:
Thursday, January 21, 1904
Spanish volunteer attached to 'D' Bn. Layforce, reported missing 2 June 1941 during operations in Crete, later found to have been captured the previous day and from then until liberation in 1945 a prisoner of war. On 30 May 1945 he listed his address as c/o Miss E. Woodbridge, 30 Bristol Avenue, Lancing, Sussex. Civil occupation Canal Labourer.
Sources
Queen's Royal Regiment Records
Casualty Lists / National Archives files WO417/28 and WO417/34..
Prisoners of War / National Archives files WO392/10 and WO392/20.
German Record Cards of British POWs / National Archives file WO416/60/208.
Casualty Lists / National Archives files WO417/28 and WO417/34..
Prisoners of War / National Archives files WO392/10 and WO392/20.
German Record Cards of British POWs / National Archives file WO416/60/208.
Dir. of Mil. Int.: Liberated Prisoner of War Interrogation Questionnaire 1945/6 / National Archives file WO344/57/2.
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