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From Sunderland.
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Photograph Sunderland Echo 30/4/43, p 3: 'Pte E Eastick (25), DLI, 10 Locke Close, Coventry (formerly of 61 Wear Street, Hendon), reported missing in North Africa.'
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Stalag 4D/Z in early 1945 German POW Number 226468.
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Fairgrieve, Pte H, 4469500. Stalag 344 in early 1945 German POW Number 80580. PG 82, Italy in 1943.
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Fawkes, Pte William Parker, 4469501. Enlisted directly to 16 DLI, Recruit Company, Folkstone, 1/42. 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: http://www.chinditslongcloth1943.com/dli-commandos.html
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Fenwick Pte A, 4469502, Stalag 11B in early 1945 German POW Number 140588. Previously POW Italy. Possibly B Coy, 16 DLI. See the 1942 group photograph:
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Firstbrook, L/Sgt C R, 4469503, Stalag 8A in early 1945, POW Number 80598. With 16 DLI in 1943. Casualty at 183 Field Ambulance in 4/43. Not listed as Italy POW.
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Foreman, L/Cpl A J, 4469504, Stalag 344 in early 1945 German POW Number 35181. Previously POW Italy.
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Foster, Pte R D, 4469506, DLI. POW Italy, 1943.
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Guthrie, Pte Alfred, 4469508. Enlisted DLI, Folkstone, 1/42. Died 20/9/44, serving with 4th Parachute Brigade Defence Platoon, Parachute Regiment, Army Air Corps, aged 27. Son of John Lyons Guthrie and Ada Rome Guthrie, of Newcastle-on-Tyne; husband of Sarah Greenwell Guthrie, of St. Anthony's, Newcastle-on-Tyne. Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery, 28 B 9.
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See http://ww2talk.com/forums/topic/34700-remembrance/
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Also: http://www.theygavetheirtoday.com/knossington.html
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Garrard, Pte Clifford Norman, 4469511. Died 24/6/44, serving with 6 DLI, aged 28. Son of Robert Claude Valentine Garrard and Caroline Sarah Garrard, of Stratford, Essex; husband of Violet Gwendolen Garrard, of Stratford. Tilly-sur-Seulles War Cemetery, France, VI B 9.
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Gilby, Pte B, 4469513, Stalag 8A in 1945, POW No 80598. Previously POW Italy.
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Godsmark, Pte Francis Alfred, 4469516. Died 13/10/43, serving with 16 DLI, aged 27. Son of George Henry and Lavina Godsmark, of Middlesbrough, Yorkshire; husband of Beatrice Godsmark, of Middlesbrough. Minturno War Cemetery, Italy, V A 11. D Company, 16 DLI in late 1942, see the 1942 group photo.
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Gofton, Pte Arthur, 4469517. Died 11/3/43, serving with 16 DLI, aged 29. Son of Thomas and Eliza Gofton, of Scarborough, Yorkshire; husband of Evelyn Gofton, of Scarborough. Beja War Cemetery, 2 G 8.
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Previously buried Djebel Abiod. Date of death corrected to 12/3/43 on CWGC grave concentration document.
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Graham, Cpl John George W, 4469519. 16 DLI. Enlisted 8/1/42 direct to Recruit Company, 16 DLI at Shorncliffe, Kent. Of 42 Linden Avenue, Fenham, Newcastle upon Tyne. Captured with D Company on 27/2/43, Sedjenane. Possibly on the 1942 D Company photograph. Stalag 398 in early 1945 German POW Number 154350.
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Grange, L/Cpl W B 4469520. 16 DLI. Enlisted Jan 1942. From Fencehouses, Northumberland? Or Shiney Row? Stalag 4D/Z German POW Number 228213. Served with my father, Pte T Tunney, in the 9th Battalion, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment, Alexandria, Scotland in 1945-46.
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Possibly this W Grange, photograph Sunderland Echo, 20/8/43, p 8: 'Two Shiney Row men, brothers in law, have met in an Italian prisoners of war camp. They are SQMS Stanley Orriss, RTC of 9 Hindson's Crscent and L/CPl William Grange, DLI of 1 Clarke's Buildings. They met at Settore, where SQMS Orriss had been interned for some time. L/Cpl Grange was transfered to the camp from another part of Italy and although he knew his brother in law was a prisoner of war it was a great surprise to them when they met.'
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Greener, L/Cpl Norman B, 4469522. Taken POW in North Africa, 2-3/3/43. Husband of Mrs T Greener, 12 Dale St, North Blyth. Evening Chronicle, Newcastle, issue 6/4/43. Stalag 4D in 1945, German POW number 247439. PG 66, Italy in 1943.
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Greenlip, Pte E O, 4469523, 16 DLI in 2/42. Stalag 4A, POW No 266564. PG 66, Italy in 1943
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Hackwood, Pte K, 4469525. DLI. Stalag 4D in early 1945, POW No 262761. Not POW Italy
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Hall, Pte John Robert Dent, 4469528. Died 16/7/43, serving with 9 DLI, aged 28. Son of John William and Eleanor Cooper;
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of Blaydon, Co Durham. Catania War Cemetery, Sicily, III B 38.
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Hamilton, Pte George Ronald, 4469530, B Company, 16 DLI. B Company, 16th DLI. Enlisted 1/42, direct to Recruit Coy,
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16 DLI. Captured Sedjenane, Tunisia 2/3/43. PG 66 and PG 82 Italy. Transferred from Italy in September 1943, to Stalag
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