MOORE, Donald Murray
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Rank:
Corporal
Unit / Base:
46RM Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Marines
Service:
Royal Navy
Number:
PO/X 3894
P.O.W. number:
71029
P.O.W. camps:
Born:
Sunday, September 14, 1919
Birthplace:
Oulton Broads, Lowestoft.
Donald Murray Moore, a Fisherman from Lowestoft, enlisted into the Royal Marines on 5 March 1939. He joined 46RM Commando which was formed August 1943. Corporal Moore, 'B' Troop, was captured 11 June 1944 during operations at Rots, France. 10 April 1945 escaped whilst being moved camp and hid until Germany surrendered.
Sources
RM Prisoners of War / National Archives file ADM201/111 (Marlag and Milad Nord).
German Record Cards of British POWs / National Archives file WO416/260/54 (Stalag 12D).
Dir. of Mil. Int.: Liberated Prisoner of War Interrogation Questionnaire 1945/6 / National Archives file WO344/223/2.
"The Story of 46 Commando, Royal Marines, by Captain P.K.W. Johnson, RM"
[Image] 46RM Cdo. Gallery photo titled 'Some of 'B' tp 46RM Commando'.
Notes
Query ident with Donald Murray Moore who died aged 41 on 17 May 1961 during construction of the Tamar Bridge, Plymouth.
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