121861 Lieutenant George Joseph KANE, MiD, Rifle Brigade

Personal Number: 121861
Rank: Lieutenant
Name: George Joseph KANE, MiD
Unit: Rifle Brigade


London Gazette : 20 September 1945
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37274/supplement/4683/data.pdf
The KING has been graciously pleased to approve that the following be Mentioned in recognition of gallant and distinguished services in the Defence of Calais in May, 1940.
Rifle Bde.
2/Lt. G. J. KANE (121861).
(Tlhe ranks shown against the names of the above officers are those held by them at the itime they were irecommended)

 

London Gazette : 20 September 1945
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37274/supplement/4683/data.pdf

 

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C17064107
Reference: WO 416/204/63
Name: George Joseph Kane.
Date of Birth: 04/07/1916.
Place of Birth: Humbolt, Canada.
Service: British Army.
Rank: Lieutenant.
Regiment/Unit/Squadron: The Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own)
Service Number: 111861.
Date of Capture: 26 May 1940.
Theatre of Capture: Calais, France.
Camp Name/Number: Oflag VIIC Laufen.
PoW number: 1044.
Date of Death: [unspecified].
Number of Photographs: 0.
Number of Fingerprints: 0.
Number of X-rays: 0.
Number of Cards: 1.
Date: [1939-1945]

 

POW Liberation reports: Nos 1401 to 1888.
Lieutenant G J Kane (service number 121861). Service: Army, Inf Bde, [Infantry... | The National Archives
Reference: WO 208/3340/1518
Description: Lieutenant G J Kane (service number 121861).
Service: Army, Inf Bde, [Infantry Brigade].
Non-Distribution List No 43.
This individual's report has not survived.
Date: 1945

 

See also:

• Private Diary: CALAIS, May 1940, 1st Battalion RIFLE BRIGADE, Major AW ALLEN
• George Kane (literary scholar) - Wikipedia
  
• George Joseph Kane was born in Humboldt, Saskatchewan, on 4 July 1916. His father had died before he was born and he was raised by his mother (a teacher) on her parents' farm in Saskatchewan; as they were Swiss and German, Kane grew up speaking German as well as English. ... However, his studies were soon interrupted by service in the Second World War from 1939; seriously wounded, he was taken prisoner during the Siege of Calais in 1940 and spent the rest of the war in captivity, wherein he studied French, learnt Italian, read German fiction and worked on several escape attempts.
  
• George Joseph Kane
  
• https://www.britishmilitaryhistory..../2020/12/9.-Officers-Rifle-Brigade-Calais.pdf
  
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