SUMNER, Frank
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Rank:
Lance Corporal
Unit / Base:
2 Commando
4 Independent Company
Regiment/Corps:
Liverpool Scottish Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
Service:
Army
Number:
2930811
P.O.W. number:
18585
P.O.W. camps:
Born:
Wednesday, April 30, 1919
Died :
Sunday, May 27, 2001
Age:
82
20.04.1939 enlisted 2nd Bn., Liverpool Scottish T.A., civil occupation Stock Clerk.
---.04.1940 volunteered for special service joining No.4 Independent Company.
---.02.1941 joined No.2 Commando 5 Troop on formation.
28.03.1942 (Lance Corporal) deployed to St Nazaire on HMS Campbeltown for Operation Chariot. Wounded and prisoner of war.
Post war served in Germany with Border Control for a period.
Member of the Commando Association (Liverpool).
Sources
Sources
Dir. of Mil. Int.: Liberated Prisoner of War Interrogation Questionnaire 1945/6 / National Archives file WO344/308/2.
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/48.
Prisoners of War / National Archives file WO392/1.
Prisoners of War / National Archives file WO392/1.
James Dorrian / St. Nazaire Society website.
Special Service of a Hazardous Nature, author Dennis Reeves, Liverpool Scottish Regimental Museum.
Obituaries in Commando Association newsletter 113 issued Sept. 2001 ( shows final rank as CSM).
Obituaries in Commando Association newsletter 113 issued Sept. 2001 ( shows final rank as CSM).
[Image 1] CVA Gallery image of 5 Troop.
[Image 2] His son Roy Sumner.
Photo of Commando in Gallery:
Yes
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