DONALD, Matthew Ewing
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Rank:
Marine
Unit / Base:
45RM Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Marines
Service:
Royal Navy
Service Number:
EX/4118
P.O.W. number:
80018
Born:
Wednesday, November 26, 1919
Birthplace:
Glasgow
Matthew Ewing Donald, a Heat and Frost Engineer from Glasgow, enlisted 28 February 1940 into the Royal Marines. On 6 June 1944 Marine Donald, 45RM Commando, was captured and a prisoner of war near Caen, Normandy. In April 1945 when ordered to go on a forced march exit from the camp he hid in the camp until liberated by allied forces.
POW Timeline
03.07.1944 - 08.07.1944 Stalag XIIA
09.07.1944 - 28.04.1945 Marlag and Milag Nord.
Sources
Dir. of Mil. Int.: Liberated Prisoner of War Interrogation Questionnaire 1945/6 / National Archives file WO344/93/1.
RM Prisoners of War / National Archives file ADM201/111 (Marlag and Milag Nord) and WO392/7.
German Record Cards of British POWs / National Archives file WO416/99/284 (Stalag 12A).
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