WALKER, Andrew Scott

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Rank: 
Signalman
Unit / Base: 
Special Service (Commando) Group, Brigade, and Brigade Signals
1 Commando
Regiment/Corps: 
Royal Corps of Signals
Service: 
Army
Service Number: 
2587945
P.O.W. camps: 
Camp PG78, Fonte d’Amore, Sulmona, Italy
Brigade Signals and No.1 Commando..
01.12.1942 Prisoner of war Bizerte, Tunisia.
24.09.1943 Escaped by jumping from a train between Padova and Venice.
04.11.1943 Arrived in Switzerland.
Member of the Commando Association from Calverton, Nottinghamshire.
 
Sources
Casualty Lists / National Archives files WO417/57, WO417/84.
Prisoners of War / National Archives file WO392/21.
Escape/Evasion Report / National Archives file WO208/4274/90 (interviewed Switzerland 4/11/1943).
Obituaries in Commando Association newsletter 104 (1997).
 
Additional content: 
Tunisia - Operation Bizerte
Archive pages : 
Brigade Signals
No 1 Commando
Prisoners of War

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