HILL, Kenneth Gerald
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Rank:
Lance Corporal
Unit / Base:
1 Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Somerset Light Infantry
Service:
Army
Service Number:
5679361
P.O.W. number:
275413
P.O.W. camps:
Born:
Saturday, January 31, 1920
Birthplace:
Bristol
Kenneth Gerald Hill was employed as a Grocer's Assistant with the Co-Op in Bristol before enlisting into the Somerset Light Infantry on 24 June 1940. He then volunteered for special service. Lance Corporal Hill, No.1 Commando, was reported missing 2 December 1942 during operations in Tunisia (Operation Bizerte), later found to be a prisoner of war.
Sources
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/59.
Priosners of War / National Archives file WO392/1 (Stalag 357) and WO392/21.
German Record Cards of British PoW's / National Archives file WO416/176/445.
Dir. of Mil. Int.: Liberated Prisoner of War Interrogation Questionnaire 1945/6 / National Archives file WO344/144/2.
The 1939 Register covering Bristol.
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