Also this page for wartime photographs:
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http://www.chinditslongcloth1943.com/the-bricklayers-of-column-4-commando.html
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Ormston, Pte William Robson, 4469302. From Wallsend. Enlisted DLI, 4 ITC Brancepeth, 12/41, Re-enforcement draft to India, 1942. Served with the 142 Commando/13th Bn Kings (Liverpool) Regiment in Burma on first Chindit expedition, 'Operation Longcloth' and successfully regained India, 1943. See this external site:
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http://www.chinditslongcloth1943.com/dli-commandos.html
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and this page for wartime photographs:
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http://www.chinditslongcloth1943.com/the-bricklayers-of-column-4-commando.html
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Page, Rfn William, 4469304. Enlisted DLI, 4 ITC, Brancepeth, 12/41. Died 7/8/44 serving with 9th Bn The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), aged 24. Son of William and Elizabeth Ann Page, of Carlin How, Yorkshire. Bayeux War Cemetery, France, XX E 14.
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Previously served with 16 DLI in UK and Tunisia. Captured Sedjenane, Tunisia, 3/43.
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Subsequently escaped from Camp PG 53, Italy after the Italian Armistice of 9/43.
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Park, Rfn George W, 4469306. Died 19/2/44, serving with 13th Bn The King’s Regt (Liverpool), aged 24. Husband of May Park, of West View, Hartlepool, Co Durham. Rangoon War Cemetery, 4 D 5.
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Enlisted DLI, 4 ITC, Brancepeth, 12/41. Re-enforcement draft to India, 1942. Served with the 142 Commando/13th Bn Kings (Liverpool) Regiment in Burma on first Chindit expedition, 'Operation Longcloth' and taken POW by Japanese 4/43. Died in captivity. See this external site:
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http://www.chinditslongcloth1943.com/dli-commandos.html
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Paylor, Pte Arthur, 4469309. Died 11/6/43, serving with 16 DLI, aged 24. Son of Robert and Cicely Lavinia Paylor, of Stockton-on-Tees, Co Durham. Medjez-el-Bab War Cemetery, 7 E 9.
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Pilmoor, CSM Harry, 4469310. Served in 10 DLI. See:
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http://70brigade.newmp.org.uk/wiki/Pilmoor_Harry_A/CSM_4469310
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Purvis, Pte G, 4469312. 16 DLI in 1942-43.
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Robinson, Pte A E 4469320. Enlisted 4 ITC, Brancepth, 12/41. With Sherwood Foresters at capture. Stalag 11A in early 1945 German POW No 137832.
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Robson, Pte William, 4469324. From Ferry Hill. Enlisted DLI, 4 ITC Brancepeth, 12/41, Re-enforcement draft to India, 1942. Served with the 142 Commando/13th Bn Kings (Liverpool) Regiment in Burma on first Chindit expedition, 'Operation Longcloth' and successfully regained India, 1943. See this external site:
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http://www.chinditslongcloth1943.com/dli-commandos.html
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and this page which has warime photographs:
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http://www.chinditslongcloth1943.com/the-bricklayers-of-column-4-commando.html
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Rowell, Pte W, 4469328, Stalag 4D/Z in 1/45 German POW No 226125. PG 53, Italy in 1945.
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Rowland, Pte Harry Kenneth, 4469329. Died 2/3/43, serving with 16 DLI, aged 22. Son of William Henry and Olive Emma Rowland, of Stockton-on-Tees, Co Durham. Medjez-el-Bab Memorial, Face 29.
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Saxon, Pte T W, 4469331, Stalag 344 in early 1945, POW No 34963. PG 66, Italy in 1943.
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Scott, Pte Joseph William, 4469334. Originally enlisted DLI, 4 ITC, Brancepeth. Re-enforcement draft to India, 1942. Served with the 142 Commando/13th Bn Kings (Liverpool) Regiment in Burma on first Chindit expedition, 'Operation Longcloth' and successfully regained India, 1943. See this external site:
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http://www.chinditslongcloth1943.com/dli-commandos.html
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Shaw, Pte Edmund, Hussey, 4469338, Enlisted DLI, 4 ITC, Brancepeth, 12/41. Re-enforcement draft to India, 1942. Served with the 142 Commando/13th Bn Kings (Liverpool) Regiment in Burma on first Chindit expedition, 'Operation Loincloth' and successfully regained India, 1943. See this external site:
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http://www.chinditslongcloth1943.com/dli-commandos.html
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Short Pte R M, 4469340, Stalag 7A in early 1945 German POW No 125776. Enlisted 4 ITC, Brancepeth 12/41. 16 DLI Signal Platoon at capture, almost certainly the R Short of 49 Drake St, Haverton Hill, Billingham who was at workcamp AK 3732, Munich in 1944-45.
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Hartlepool Mail, 8/1/44, p 2: 'Missing in Italy. Mr S Short, of 8 Grainger Street, West Hartlepool, has received news that his
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brother, Pte Robert Short, DLI, has been posted missing in Italy since November 29. Pte Short was a bricklayer in the employ of Mr T A Young before he was called to the forces.'
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Hartlepool Mail, 16/5/45, p 2: 'Back home. Pte Robert Short, formerly of 23 Water Street, West Hartlepool and now living at Billingham, has returned home after nearly two years in a German prison camp. As a signaller with the DLI he saw service in Africa and Italy, where he was taken prisoner. Another brother of two in the services, is a prisoner of war camp near Prague.'
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Smith, Pte Leslie William, 4469343. Died 3/11/43, aged 23. Captured serving with 16 DLI. Born Middlesbrough, enlisted Yorkshire. Son of Francis William and Annie Elizabeth Smith, of Pickering, Yorkshire. Milan War Cemetery, Italy, VI B 2.
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Died as POW in German hands from gunshot wounds, according to National Archives document.
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