BOAST, Edward Albert
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Rank:
Corporal
Unit / Base:
50ME Commando
'Layforce'
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Fusiliers 1st Bn.
Service:
Army
Service Number:
6457716
P.O.W. number:
24265
Born:
Monday, February 24, 1913
Died:
1969
Place died:
Essex
Edward Boast from Walthamstow, London, enlisted 1 January 1934. Corporal Boast was reported missing 2 June 1941 during operations in Crete, later found to be a prisoner of war.
Sources
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/27.
Prisoners of War / National Archives file WO392/1.
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/27.
Prisoners of War / National Archives file WO392/1.
WW11 Liberated POW Questionnaires 1945-6 / National Archives file WO344 Directorate of Mil. Int.
Deaths Registered in Redbridge, Essex, Oct/Nov/Dec 1969.
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