2720248 Guardsman Reginald BUTTERWORTH, 2 Irish Guards: Liberated POW

Army Number: 2720248
Rank: Guardsman
Name: Reginald BUTTERWORTH
Unit: 2 Armoured Irish Guards

 

Via Ancestry View Record
Name: Reginald Butterworth
Birth Date: 19 Oct 1919
Enlistment Date: 7 Mar 1940
Capture Date: Easter Monday [Monday, 2nd April 1945]
Capture Place: Gilder House [Gildehaus]



PART I.
GENERAL QUESTIONNAIRE FOR BRITISH/AMERICAN EX-PRISONERS OF WAR.

1. No. 2720248
RANK - Gdsm
SURNAME - BUTTERWORTH
CHRISTIAN NAMES - Reginald
DECORATIONS -

2. UNIT (ARMY) - 2nd Armd Batt. Irish Guards

3. DIVISION (ARMY) - Guards Armd Div

4. DATE OF BIRTH 19th Oct. 1919

5. DATE OF ENLISTMENT - 7.3.40

6. CIVILIAN TRADE OR PROFESSION - Mech Belt Manufacture, Barber

7. PRIVATE ADDRESS - 128 Beckwith St., Birkenhead, Cheshire

8. PLACE AND DATE OF ORIGINAL CAPTURE - Glider House, Easter Monday [Probably Gildehaus, Monday, 2nd April 1945]

9. WERE YOU WOUNDED WHEN CAPTURED? - No

10. MAIN CAMPS OR HOSPITALS IN WHICH IMPRISONED
Camp No. / Location / From / Till
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11. WERE YOU IN A WORKING CAMP?
Location / From/ Till / Nature of Work
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12. DID YOU SUFFER FROM ANY SERIOUS ILLNESSES WHILE A P/W?
Nature of Illness / Cause / Duration
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12 b. DID YOU RECEIVE ADEQUATE MEDICAL TREATMENT?
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GENERAL QUESTIONNAIRE PART II TOP SECRET

1. No. 2720248
RANK - Gdsm
SURNAME - BUTTERWORTH
CHRISTIAN NAMES - Reginald


2. LECTURES before Capture:
( a ) Were you lectured in your unit on how to behave the event of capture? (State where, when and by whom).
In England by OC
( b ) Were you lectured on escape and evasion? (State where, when and by whom.
Yes by OC, England.

3. INTERROGATION after capture:
Were you specially interrogated by the enemy? (State where, when and methods employed by enemy).
Interrogated at Bentheim and Messingen
Easy going, he left his staff to do most of the talking.


4. ESCAPES attempted:
Did yo make any attempted or partly successful escapes? (Give details of each attempt accurately, stating where, when, method employed, names of your companions, wherein when recaptured and by whom. Were you physically fit? What happened to your companions?)
I never got into any POW camp because of camps being moved, after ten days I managed to talk three para-troopers to hand over their guns and to come over to our lines.


5. SABOTAGE
Did you do any sabotage or destruction of enemy factory plant, war material, communications, etc, when employed on working-parties or during escape? (Give details, places and dates.)
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6. COLLABORATION with enemy:
Do you know of any British or American personnel who collaborated with the enemy or in any way helped the enemy agains other Allied Prisoners of War? (Give details, names of persons concerned, camps, dates and nature of collaboration or help given to enemy).
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7. WAR CRIMES
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GENERAL QUESTIONNAIRE PART II TOP SECRET
(continued)

8. Have you any other matter of any kind you wish to bring to notice?
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SECURITY UNDERTAKING
I fully realised that all information relating the matters covered by the questions in Part II. are of a highly secret and official nature.

I have had explained to me and fully understand that under Defence Regulations or U.S.A.R. 380-5 I am forbidden to publish or communicate any information concerning these matters.

Date 13 May 1945 Signature Butterworth R