RAISBECK, Robert Douglas Grant
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Known as:
Bob
Rank:
Corporal
Unit / Base:
4 Independent Company
Special Service (Commando) Group, Brigade, and Brigade Signals
Regiment/Corps:
Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, 2nd Bn., Liverpool Scottish
Service:
Army
Number:
2930958
P.O.W. number:
29365
P.O.W. camps:
Born:
Wednesday, January 29, 1919
Birthplace:
Lark Hall
Robert Douglas Grant Raisbeck, an Accountancy Clerk from Liverpool, enlisted on 24 April 1939 joining the 2nd Battalion Liverpool Scottish T.A. He volunteered for and served in No.4 Independent Company and later 'B' Company No.1 Special Service Bn., (No.2 Commando).
In December 1940 he was part of a Detachment that embarked for Malta as part of Force 'X' for Folbot operations from submarines. They were temporarily designated on their arrival as No.1 Section Egyptian Detail under naval command at the base of the 10th (Malta) Submarine Flotilla. Corporal Raisbeck was reported missing, later confirmed a prisoner of war having been captured Gulf of Sirte, coast of Libya, on 30 July 1941. Liberated 1945.
Sources
No.4 Independent Company Nominal Roll.
Linked content below.
Special Service of a Hazardous Nature, compiled by Dennis Reeves, Hon.Curator Liverpool Scottish Museum.
Casualty Lists / National Archives files WO417/30, WO417/31, and WO417/96.
Prisoners of War / National Archives files WO392/1, WO392/21.
German Record Cards of British POWs / National Archives fileWO416/299/264.
Dir. of Mil. Int.: Liberated Prisoner of War Interrogation Questionnaire 1945/6 / National Archives file WO344/263/1.
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