Officers taken POW while serving with the 16th DLI 1943-45
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Capt J R Bavington-Jones cap;tured Sedjenane 2/3/43
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B Company, died of wounds while POW, 9/3/43
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Personal No 129445
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Lt Michael Beverly Davies, Sedjenane 2/3/43, C Company, wounded
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Personal No 137498 (seconded from Royal Welch Fusiliers)
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German POW No 2541
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Camps: PG 206, 66 and 49 in Italy, Oflag 5A and Stalag 7 in Germany
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Enlisted 12/39
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Of 250 Iffley Road, Oxford
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Lt H J Dorrian, Sedjenane 2/3/43, B Company
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Personal No 198253
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Not recorded as a German POW in 1945. An escaper?
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Major K N Hillas, Sedjenane circa 27/2/43-2/3/43, B Company CO
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Personal No 120694
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German POW No 1426
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Camp Oflag 79 in early 1945
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Lt G S Latimer, Sedjenane circa 27/2/43-2/3/43, died of wounds while POW, 9/3/43
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Personal No: 176389
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Capt Hubert Brian Lax, 9/3/43, Carrier Platoon, HQ Company
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Personal No 151569
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German POW No 2531
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Camps PG 38 and 47 in Italy; Oflag 5A and Stalag 7B, Germany
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Enlisted 10/39
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Of Keswick Road, Cringleford, Norwich
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Lt G P Martindale, Sedjenane circa 27/2/43-2/3/43, D Company
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Personal No 121304 (seconded from the Queen's Royal Regiment
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German POW No 2629 Camp Oflag 5A in early 1945
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Lt T W Lt Weightman, circa 10/3/43
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Personal No 174498
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German POW No 2532/25
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Camp Oflag 5A in early 1945
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No officers are known to have been taken POW in Italy, but one was captured in Piraeus, Greece in December 1944 by ELAS communist guerillas:
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Lt W Whitwell, B Company, night of the 13/12/44,
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Wounded, captured along with 20 men of his platoon after their house was surrounded and ammunition exhausted. Held for a month before escaping. See the Battalion History, page 54.
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