549921 Serjeant Hubert Martin ALLENBY, 12th Lancers, RAC: PoW

Army Number: 549921
Rank: SerJeant
Name: Hubert Martin ALLENBY
Unit: 12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's)

Date of Birth: 7/12/1911
Date of Enlistment: 5/10/1929
Date of Capture: 28/12/1941
Place of Capture: Nr Agedabia [Ajdabiya] Libya

 

Name: Hubert Martin Allenby . Date of Birth: 7 December 1911 . Place of Birth: England .... | The National Archives
Reference: WO 416/5/331
Name: Hubert Martin Allenby.
Date of Birth: 7 December 1911.
Place of Birth: England.
Service: British Army.
Rank: Sergeant.
Regiment/Unit/Squadron: [Royal Armoured Corps].
Service Number: 549921.
Date of Capture: 25 June 1944.
Theatre of Capture: [unspecified].
Camp Name/Number: Stalag VIIA Moosburg.
PoW number: 132520.
Date of Death: [unspecified].
Number of Photographs: 0.
Number of Fingerprints: 0.
Number of X-rays: 0.
Number of Cards: 2.
Date: [1939-1945]

 

via Ancestry


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

1. No. 549921
RANK - Sgt.
SURNAME - ALLENBY
CHRISTIAN NAMES - HUBERT MARTIN
DECORATIONS -

2. UNIT (ARMY) - XII ROYAL LANCERS (R.A.C.)

3. DIVISION (ARMY) - 1ST ARMD. DIV.

4. DATE OF BIRTH - 7/12/1911

5. DATE OF ENLISTMENT - 5/10/1929


6. CIVILIAN TRADE OR PROFESSION - MOTOR FITTER

7. PRIVATE ADDRESS - 60 THE KNOLL, MANSFIELD, NOTTS, ENGLAND

8. PLACE AND DATE OF ORIGINAL CAPTURE - 28/12/41 (nr. AGHDABIA)

9. WERE YOU WOUNDED WHEN CAPTURED? - NO

10. MAIN CAMPS OR HOSPITALS IN WHICH IMPRISONED
Camp No. / Location / From / Till
PG 66 CAPUA ITALY FEB 1 - MARCH 13 1942
PG 59 SEVIGLIANO ITALY MARCH 13/42 - SEPT 14 1943
STALAG VII A MOOSBURG GERMANY JUNE 44 - FEB 1945
STALAG 383 HOHENFELS GERMANY


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. 549921
RANK - Sgt.
SURNAME - ALLENBY
CHRISTIAN NAMES - HUBERT MARTIN


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).
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( b ) Were you lectured on escape and evasion? (State where, when and by whom.
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3. INTERROGATION after capture:
Were you specially interrogated by the enemy? (State where, when and methods employed by enemy).
ORDINARY

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?)
Escaped from PG 59 after Italian Armistice, was recaptured MAY 3 1943. Companion S/Sgt. STIPLING 4th R.H.A. Was recaptured by Italians in civilians (part of Facisti Unit stationed at PENNE). Was physically fit but was in rags & without boots. Recaptured in Mountains near FARINDOLA.


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.)
Whilst in transit at TARHUNA, LIBYA, was forced to load motor and tank spare parts by Germans. Damaged good amount by dropping complete engines, then loading, putting bolts etc in plug holes & foreign bodies in parts of engines liable to seizure.


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
If you have any information or evidence of bad treatment by the enemy to yourself or to others, or knowledge of any enemy violation of Geneva Convention you should ask for a copy of "Form Q" on which to make your statement.
(NOTE: Form Q is a separate form inviting information on "War Crimes" and describes the kind of offences coning under this title.)



GENERAL QUESTIONNAIRE PART II TOP SECRET
(continued)

8. Have you any other matter of any kind you wish to bring to notice?
I should like to recommend GERENIA DELLA MONICA, FARINDOLA, PROV DE PESCARA, ITALY, for some form of recompensation. This man fed S/Sgt STIPLING & ,self for many moths whilst free in ITALY & did all in his power to assist us. I am indebted to him to the extent of approx 3,000 lire loaned to me. I wrote him a chit of some length for him to present to BRITISH authorities. This man would be useful in as much he knows all the men in the area who were active Fascisti & working for Germans.

8. Cont.
I would also like to recommend R.S.M. PEAPLE, Camp Leader at P.G. 59 for his work in the camp. He handled the Italians in the right manner when they trie dot interfere with Red Cross issues. Was ????ed at one time for telling the Commandant that he would be a prisoner one day. Apart from his strong line with the detaining power he worked hard in the general interests of the Camp.



SECURITY UNDERTAKING
I fully realise 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 8/5/1945
Signature H M Allenby, Sgt

 

Name: H M Allenby . Service number: 549921 . Date of birth: 7 August 1911 . | The National Archives
Reference: WO 422/64689
Description: Name: H M Allenby.
Service number: 549921.
Date of birth: 7 August 1911.
Date: [1939-1963]

 

See also:

• 1042109 RSM Sydney Charles PEAPLE, MM, 31st Field Regiment RA: PoW
  
• 2617003 Serjeant Andrew SEDDON, Grenadier Guards & 2nd Special Air Service: POW - escape companion, unsuccessful attempt
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Are you sure about the enlistment date? He would have been 13 then?

All the best

Andreas

 

Now corrected

 

Allenby was recaptured in May 1944. He got the year wrong!