WILLS, Herbert Charles
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Rank:
Private
Unit / Base:
3 Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Devonshire Regiment
Service:
Army
Service Number:
5613511
P.O.W. number:
25875
P.O.W. camps:
Died :
Saturday, October 30, 1943
Died on war service
Age:
36
Cemetery/Memorial:
Private Herbert Wills was reported missing during operations at Dieppe on 19 August 1942 and later found to have become a prisoner of war. He was transported to Stalag 344 in Poland where he later died. Cause of death is not known to this archive.
Sources
CWGC.
Prisoners of War / National Archives file WO392/1.
Casualty Records / National Archives files WO417/ 49, 52 and 69,
ROH in Commando-Memoirs of a Fighting Commando in WW2 by Brig Durnford-Slater.
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