HAWLEY, Donald
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Rank:
Private
Unit / Base:
3 Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment
Service:
Army
Number:
6353584
P.O.W. number:
6717
P.O.W. camps:
Donald Hawley from Birmingham was employed on a milk round before enlisting into the Armed Forces aged 18 on 27 October 1940. He volunteered for special service and was attached to No.3 Commando. Private Hawley was reported missing 14 July 1943 during operations at Agnone, Sicily, and Malati bridge, later confirmed a prisoner of war.
Member of the Commando Association from Longbridge, Birmingham.
Member of the Commando Association from Longbridge, Birmingham.
Sources
Casualty Lists / National Archives files WO417/66 and WO417/96.
Prisoners of War / National Archives file WO392/1.
Dir. of Mil. Int.: Liberated Prisoner of War Interrogation Questionnaire 1945/6 / National Archives file WO344/138/2.
Obituaries in Commando Association newsletter 119.
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