GREEN, William Frederick
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Rank:
Lance Bombardier
Unit / Base:
2 Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Artillery
Service:
Army
Number:
6204868
P.O.W. number:
135255
P.O.W. camps:
Born:
Thursday, September 30, 1920
William Frederick Green, a Shop Assistant from London, enlisted into the Territorial Army on 10 October 1938. After volunteering for the commandos during the war he was attached to No.2 Commando.
Lance Bombardier Green was reported missing 6 June 1944 during a raid on the enemy occupied island of Brac, Yugoslavia, later confirmed a prisoner of war. A small number of commandos from No.2 were engaged in a failed attempt to locate and liberate their Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Colonel 'Jack' Churchill, who had been captured during Operation Flounced on the island of Brac a few days earlier.
Escaped with two others from a work camp at Augsburg, Germany, in September 1944; re-captured seven days later at Reutte, Austria.
Sources
No.2 Commando War Diary List of twelve commandos missing after Operation Flounced at Brac.
Casualty Lists 1939-45 / National Archives files WO417/77, 82, and 97.
Prisoners of War / National Archives file WO392/11.
No.2 Commando War Diary List of twelve commandos missing after Operation Flounced at Brac.
Casualty Lists 1939-45 / National Archives files WO417/77, 82, and 97.
Prisoners of War / National Archives file WO392/11.
Dir. of Mil. Int.: Liberated Prisoner of War Interrogation Questionnaire 1945/6 / National Archives file WO344/125/2.
German Record Cards of British POWs / National Archives file WO416/149/378.
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