• Casualty list, 4th Bn. The Dorsetshire Regiment, Operation Market Garden

Date of birth:

May 10th, 1914 (Salford/Greater Manchester, Engeland)

Date of death:

July 1979 (Salford/Greater Manchester, England)

Service number:

3660023

Nationality:

British

Rank: Corporal
B Company

War Office: Directorate of Prisoners of War: Prisoners of War Lists, Second World War
Stalag 344 Lamsdorf, Germany
POW No. 20013

War Office: German Record cards of British and Commonwealth Prisoners of War and some Civilian Internees, Second World War
Stammlager Stalag XII A Limburg/Lahn
POW No. 20013

Stalag XII A Limburg/Lahn was a durchgangslager (Dulag) or transit camp for the whole Western Front and not just for men captured at Arnhem. Stalag XII A registered able-bodied NCOs and Other Ranks: officers passed through the camp before transfer to the officers' Dulag/Stalag XII B at Hadamar, 5 kilometers to the west. Most Arnhem prisoners of war passed through this camp between the end of September and the end of October 1944.

Sources in this file:
Personalkarte I (PKI)
Information on Transits

According to these files the individual is reported:
25 September 1944: Taken Prisoner of War in Holland
6 October 1944: Transit to Stammlager Stalag XII A Limburg/Lahn
17 Oktober 1944: Transit to Stalag VIII Muhlberg
9 January 1945: Transit to Stalag 344 Lamsdorf

Casualty List No. 1649
Prisoner of War in German Hands (Germany)
8 January 1945: Reported to War Office Casualty Section for the 24 hours ending at 09:00.

Casualty List No. 1742
Not Prisoner of War (Survived)
27 April 1945: Reported to War Office Casualty Branch for 24 hours ending at 09:00.
Casualty List No. 1742. Previously reported on Casualty List No. 1649 as Prisoner of War in German Hands (Germany) now Not Prisoner of War. Previous Theatre of War, Western Europe.

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• England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007
  
  WO 392 - Directorate of Prisoners of War: Prisoners of War Lists, Second World War: "Prisoners of War. Armies and other land forces of the British Empire, 1939-1945", compiled by J B Hayward. ISBN 0 903754 61 4
  
  WO 416 - German Record cards of British and Commonwealth Prisoners of War and some Civilian Internees, Second World War:
  WO 416/6/298
  
  WO 417 - German Record cards of British and Commonwealth Prisoners of War and some Civilian Internees, Second World War
  - WO 417/87: Casualty Lists - Other Ranks 1643 - 1667 pt.1
  - WO 417/91: Casualty Lists - Other Ranks 1737 - 1755 pt.1
  
  WO 224 - International Red Cross and Protecting Powers (Geneva): Reports concerning Prisoner of War Camps in Europe and the Far East: WO 224/35: Stalag XII A Limburg/Lahn
  
  No additional records found at:
  - WO 344: Directorate of Military Intelligence: Liberated Prisoner of War Interrogation Questionnaires
  - "The Airborne Hospital, Willem III Kazerne, Apeldoorn, 25th Sept 1944 to 26th Oct 1944. Nominal roll of the wounded" compiled by Peter H Starling