CALLAWAY, Thomas, Frederick
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Known as:
Cab
Rank:
Corporal
Unit / Base:
12 Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Hampshire Regiment
Service:
Army
Service Number:
5499065
P.O.W. number:
18662
P.O.W. camps:
Born:
Thursday, April 4, 1918
Birthplace:
Southampton, Hampshire
Died:
1989
Place died or last resided:
Southampton, Hampshire
Thomas Frederick Calaway from Southampton enlisted into the Armed Forces in October 1937. He volunteered for the Commandos during the war and joined No.12 Commando. Corporal Callaway was one of the commando contingent who embarked on HMS Campbeltown for Operation Chariot, the raid at St. Nazaire 28/29 March 1942. Reported missing later confirmed a prisoner of war.
Camps
30.03.1942 - 04.04.1942 Front Stalag 133.
08.04.1942 - 07.1942 Marlag and Milag Nord.
07.1942 - 09.1943 Stalag VIIIB.
10.1943 - 05.1944 Stalag XXA
05.1944 - 08.1944 Stalag 357 at Thorn.
08.1944 - 04.1945 Stalag 357 Fallingbostel.
Escapes
15 August 1942 escaped and on the loose for 10 days before recapture and return to Stalag XVIIIB.
Sources
Dir. of Mil. Int.: Liberated Prisoner of War Interrogation Questionnaire 1945/6 / National Archives file WO344/52/2.
Casualty Lists 1939045 / National Archives file WO417/43.
Prisoners of War 1715-1945 / National Archives file WO392/1 (Stalag 357).
German Record Cards of British PoW's / National Archives file WO416/54/392 (Marlag und Milag).
Obituaries in Commando Association newsletter 90 issued March 1990.
Registers of Deaths in Southampton no.989 vol 20, p.1103.
[Image] CVA Gallery.
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