DRUCE, Leonard William
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Rank:
Lieutenant
Unit / Base:
3 Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment
Service:
Army
Number:
179771
P.O.W. camps:
Born:
Saturday, October 26, 1918
Died:
2005
Age:
86
Leonard William Druce, a Bank Clerk from Borehamwod, Hertfordshire, enlisted 15 September 1939. Commissioned Second Lieutenant 22 March 1941. Volunteered for the commandos. Lieutenant Druce, No.3 Commando, was captured 19 August 1942 during operations at Dieppe, France. He made two attempts at escape but was re-captured on each occasion. Liberated 1945. Member of the Commando Association residing Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Sources
Dir. of Mil. Int.: Liberated Prisoner of War Interrogation Questionnaire 1945/6 / National Archives file WO344/96/1.
Dir. of Mil. Int.: Liberated Prisoner of War Interrogation Questionnaire 1945/6 / National Archives file WO344/96/1.
London Gazette 35133, page 2102.
Casualty Lists / National Archives files WO417/3 and WO417/9.
Prisoners of War / National Archives file WO392/1.
Prisoners of War / National Archives file WO392/1.
Commando Association newsletter 102 (1996) and Obituaries in newsletter 120 (2005).
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