RELF, Arthur Charles
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Known as:
Bill
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Unit / Base:
45RM Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Army Medical Corps
Service:
Army
Number:
7348669
P.O.W. camps:
Born:
Sunday, May 1, 1921
Birthplace:
Maidstone, Kent
Died :
Wednesday, September 22, 1971
Place died:
Maidstone, Kent
Age:
50
Arthur Charles Relf, from Maidstone in Kent, enlisted on 27 April 1939. Formerly employed in the Service Department of the Maidstone Electricity Works. Lance Corporal Relf, R.A.M.C. attached 45RM Commando, was reported wounded and missing 7 June 1944, and a prisoner of war 9 June 1944 at Normandy, France.
Sources
Casualty Lists / National Archives files WO417/77, 80, and 87.
Prisoners of War / National Archives file WO392/1 and 11.
Dir. of Mil. Int.: Liberated Prisoner of War Interrogation Questionnaire 1945/6 / National Archives file WO344/266/1.
England & Wales Deaths, Maidstone Registry, Vol.5F, page 1224.
England & Wales Government Probate Death Index, Brighton Registry, probate date 18 Nov. 1971.
[Image] Report in the Maidstone Telegraph 07 July 1944, p5.
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