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

Date of birth:

April 30th, 1909 (Morecambe/Lancashire, England)

Date of death:

September 6th, 1987 (Westgate-on-Sea/Kent, England)

Service number:

90922

Nationality:

British

Rank held during Operation Market Garden:
Acting/Lieutenant-Colonel (35 Years Old)

War Office: Directorate of Prisoners of War: Prisoners of War Lists, Second World War
Oflag 79 Braunschweig, Germany
POW No. 00636

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Information on Transits

According to these files the individual is reported:
Transit to Oflag XII B Hadamar
16 Oktober 1944: Transit to Oflag 79 Braunschweig

Casualty List No. 1569
Missing: Date 26 September 1944
5 October 1944: Reported to War Office Casualty Branch for the 24 hours ending at 09:00.

Casualty List No. 1593
Prisoner of War in German Hands (Location Unknown)
2 November 1944: Reported to War Office Casualty Branch for the 24 hours ending at 09:00.
Casualty List No. 1693. Previously reported on casualty list No. 1569 as Missing

Casualty List No. 1757
Not Prisoner of War (Survived)
25 April 1945: Reported to War Office Casualty Branch for 24 hours ending at 09:00.
Casualty List No. 1757. Previously reported on Casualty List No. 1593 as Prisoner of War in German Hands - Western Europe. Now Not Prisoner of War.

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17 September 1944 WO 171/1286 - 4 Dorsets
Maj Eyre 2 i/c assumed command of the Bn in the absence of Lt.Col. Tilly who was placed in command of Bde Tail Gp. for duration of journey northwards.

24 September 1944 WO 171/1286 - 4 Dorsets
Bn warned of possible attack over river on enemy posns tonight. Lt.Col. G. Tilly re-assumed comd of the Bn.

26 September 1944 WO 171/1286 - 4 Dorsets
Maj. Eyre assumed command of the Bn. Lt.Col. Tilly being missing across river.

• England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007
  GRO Reference: DOR Q3/1987 THANET (5751A) Vol.16 1587
  
  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 XI B Fallingbostel
  
  WO 361: Department of the Permanent Under Secretary of State: Casualties (L) Branch: Enquiries into Missing Personnel, 1939-45 War
  - WO 361/595: North West Europe: Dorsetshire Regiment; missing personnel
  
  WO 416 - German Record cards of British and Commonwealth Prisoners of War and some Civilian Internees, Second World War:
  WO 416/362/497
  
  WO 417: War Office: Army Casualty Lists, 1939-45 War
  - WO 417/29: Casualty Lists - Other Ranks 1593(6)
  - WO 417/7: Officers and Nurses 1693(3)
  - WO 417/9: Officers and Nurses 1757(4)
  
  No additional records found at:
  - The National Archives; Kew, London, England; 1939 Register;
  - 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