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03-08-2006, 01:42 AM
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| Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Hampshire, England
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 | Awards to ex POW's via the POW pool I wonder whether any forum members can help me solve a minor mystery for a local regimental museum. The WWII gallantry index cards for officers and OR's held by the museum provide details of each gallantry award, when it was gazetted and who it was recommended by. There are a number of cards where the recommendation of the award is attributed as "recommended by POW pool". Given the dates of the awards in the London Gazette I can but assume that this relates to ex POW's. However, the museum has no evidence to suggest that the recipients were ever POW's. Here are a few examples (all Hampshire Regiment men): Pte 5499790 BUNCE Harold - Mention in Despatches (MiD) gazetted 14.02.1946 Cpl 5505049 BYNG John Richard - MM gazetted 21.02.1946 2/Lt 123354 MARTEL Philips - MC gazetted 21.02.1946 Sgt 5494760 EDWARDS Robert Henry - MiD gazetted 14.02.1946 Pte 5506980 DEGNIN Douglas Haig - MM gazetted 14.02.1946 Can any forum members confirm whether the men above were listed as POW's during the war. Many thanks in advance for any help forthcoming. Marc |
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03-08-2006, 05:15 AM
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| Legendary Member   Join Date: May 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia
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__________________ Spidge,  ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm | |
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03-08-2006, 05:28 AM
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| Very Senior Member   Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Looking for a Landing Zone
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| Malory, Pte 5499790 BUNCE Harold - Not listed as a POW Cpl 5505049 BYNG John Richard - POW Nu: 225388, Last camp 4B Muhlburg. 2/Lt 123354 MARTEL Philips - POW Nu: 3992, Last camp O7B Eichstatt. Sgt 5494760 EDWARDS Robert Henry - Not listed as a POW Pte 5506980 DEGNIN Douglas Haig - POW Nu: 252194, Last camp 4C Wistritz bei Teplitiz. Hope this helps!
__________________ 52nd Airborne. Remembering the fallen from the 5th Hampshire Regiment and The Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. |
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14-11-2008, 02:34 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: ENGLAND
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Sgt Edwards is listed as P.O.W. in Italy as of August 1943. Camp No. not indicated. Could be an Escaper or Exchanged P.O.W. Brian | |
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