BARNES, Robert Gerald
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Birth name:
BAUMWOLLSPINNER, Gotthard
Rank:
Private
Unit / Base:
10 Commando
Regiment/Corps:
-
Service:
Army
Born:
Thursday, December 12, 1918
Birthplace:
Cottbus, Germany
Died :
Friday, December 14, 1984
Place died:
Great Broughton, Middlesborough
Age:
66
10.07.1940 transported as an enemy alien to Australia on board SS Dunera.
10.02.1942 returned to the UK. Re-interred.
14.02.1942 released from internment. Residence in West Didsbury, Manchester.
Served under an alias in No.10 (Inter Allied) Commando 3 Troop, aka 'X' Troop.
3 May 1947 employed as a Draughtsman in Leytonstone, London, oath of allegiance taken and granted a certificate of naturalization.
Post war member of the Commando Association.
Sources
Home Office: Aliens Department: Internees Index, 1939-1947 / National Archives files HO396/147 and HO396/150.
Obituaries in Commando Association newsletter 80 (1985).
London Gazette 37995, page 2859.
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