Prisoners of War in World War 2

No. 1143 Sub-Lt Robert AITKEN Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve, HMS X7. D.S.O.

Date of birth: 1 January 1923

Date of enlistment: 20 June 1941

Place and date of capture:  Kaar Fjord, Norway. 23 September 1943

Main camps or hospitals in which imprisoned: 

• Naval Dulag, Westertimke (9/10/1943 - 25/11/1943)
• Marlag O (25/11/1943 - April 1943)

Interrogation:

Aboard the 'Tirpitz', immediately on capture. Whilst in the Naval Dulag. Threats of shooting aboard Tirpitz and sending over to the gestapo in Dulag - only threats used.

Escape attempts:

Attempted escape from Marlag (O) by tunnel on two occasions, both unsuccessful owing to collapse of tunnel under anti-tunnelling ditch outside the wire.

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ACA 1949. Financial officer R H Hunt & Co, Earl's Colne, Essex.
Articled to George Pierson of Edward Thomas Pierson & Sons of Coventry. Passed Final Examination in May 1949.

Attended the President's reception in June 1945

• Read Robert Aitken's story

George Vincent ANDREW Medical Auxiliary Service.

Died while a prisoner of war, 27th May 1945. Belalau, Sumatra

Remembered at Sumatra Cemetery, memorial to civilian war dead.

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ACA 1930. Mansfield & Co, Singapore in 1940

No. 130402 Lieutenant Dugald Swanwick BANNATYNE. Queen's Own Gordon Highlanders, attached to Royal Signal Corps. 2nd Armoured Division.

Date of birth: 31 January 1919

Date of Enlistment: 27 September 1939

Place and date of capture: Mechilli, Libya. 8 April 1941

Main camps held in:

• PG 17 (16/5/1941 - 4/5/1942)
• PG 35  (5/5/1942- 31/7/1943)
• PG 19  (2/8/1943 - 11/9/1943)
• Stalag VII-A  (14/9/1943 - 20/9/1943)
• Stalag V-C  (21/9/1943 - 9/10/1943)
• Oflag V-A  (9/10/1943 - 4/1/1944)
• Oflag VIII-F  (8/1/1944 - 4/5/1944)
• Oflag 79 (6/5/1944 - 12/4/1945)

Escape attempts:

I manged to get outside the camp at  N 19 [PG 19]  Bologna for a few hours after the Italian armistice but was recaptured by the Germans who had the camp surrounded. There was about 300 of us with Brigadier R.G. Mountain

Sat the Intermediate Examination March 1945 at Stalag 383

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B.A., ACA 1948. Chief Accountant, Abbott Laboratories Ltd, Perivale in 1955. Articled to Sir H.M Barton, London. Passed Final Examination in November 1847.

Attended the President's reception in June 1945

No. 158154 Lieutenant Edwards Snelson BELL. No.1 Reserve Motorised Company, Royal Army Service Corps, MEEF.

Date of birth:  1/1/1919

Date of enlistment: 7/9/1939

Place and date of capture: 29/4/1941. Kalatama, Greece

Main camps held in:

• Offlag V-B (June- Oct 1941)
• Offlag VI-B  (October-Sept 1943)
• Offlag VII-B (Sept 1943 - April 1945
• Stalag VII-A (April 1945)

Exams sat while in captivity: Intermediate (June 1943 at Offlag VII-B); Final (August 1944 at Stalag VII-A)

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Articled with F.A. Lord of Deloitte, Plender, Griffiths & Co., London. Became ACA in 1949 and was with Deloitte, Plender, Griffiths & Co, London (List of Members, 1950); Secretary The Amalgamated Dental Co. (List of Members, 1955). 

Attended the President's reception in June 1945

No. 145460 Captain Peter Charles Bethone BENSON. 1st Army Tank Brigade HQ, Royal Tank Regiment.

Date of birth: 8th July 1918

Date of enlistment:  July 1939

Place and and date of capture: 1 June 1942, Near Tobruk, North Africa

Main camps held at:

• PG 5 (July 1942 - October 1942)
• PG 21 (October 1942 - September 1943)
• Stalag VII-A (March 1944 - June 1944)
• Oflag VII-B (June 1944 - April 1945)

Escape attempts:

1. Abortive attempt to escape from Gavi PG 5 in Sept 1942 by fixing the count of a work party leaving the camp. Alone.
2. Jumped from the train Sept 30th 1943 - alone - free til March 4th 1944. Recaptured in 'No Mans Land' Cassino front by Germans.
3. With Lt-Col Trendall, Major R.E.L. Tuckey, Major D.H. Nott lay up in secret hide for 10 days in camp VIII-B until found by American forces 25/4/1945.

Sabotage:

During Allied attacks on Casino front Jan-March 1944 I cut such telephone cables as could be found in my are  and gathered considerable information on German positions etc. A plan was formed for a parachute drop on vital points with Italian local assistance but all attempts to get information across was frustrated and ended by my final capture.

Collaboration with enemy:

While on Intelligence Staff at PG 21 - Capt. Ian Tennant Scots Guards, Cpt. White Abbott and myself received information of collaboration acts by one South African camp leader + the SBO of the interrogation camp in Rome our joint evidence is necessary for full particulars of this case

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Articled with ?. Passed Preliminary Examination in November 1935 (Stowe School)

We have not found any record of Benson becoming a member. 

Attended the President's reception in June 1945

No. 1482640 Gunner Charles Walter BODSWORTH. 122/10 Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery MEF

Date of birth: 22 January 1912

Date of enlistment: 2 September 1939

Place and date captured: Athens. Greece. 28/4/1941 (at general hospital)

Wounded when captured: blast

Main camps held in:

• Stalag 306 (July 1941 - Oct1942)
• Stalag XVIII-A (Oct 1942 - April 1945)
• Stalag XVIII-C (May 1945)

Were you in a working camp:

• Steinmark Aug 1941 - May 1942 farm
• Steinmark May 1942 - April 1943 farm
• Steinmark June 1943 - Oct 1943 Road, railway
• Steinmark June 1944 - March 1945 farm

Escapes attempted: only local attempts, none with organised escape committees

Sabotage: only small things

Collaboration (do you know of any British or American personnel who collaborated....

Coulander (NZ forces). Helping in the formation of the British Free Legion. Further details from RSM Stevenson [2 words undistinguishable] Stalag XVIII-A.

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Articled with Hancock & Ashford. Bodsworth took exams for the Society of Incorporated Accountants & Auditors whilst a PoW, admitted to membership in 1944. He became an ACA in 1958 (FCA 1960) and worked for Bodsworth & Allen, Sheffield.

Captain David James BOGIE, Royal Corps of Signals. TD, Mentioned in despatches

• Oflag IX-A/H Spangenberg

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B.Com C.A. (Bogie wrote Bogie on Group Accounts on the back of cigarette packets and tutored Michael Wittet (q.v.). Wittet later joined Bogie's firm in Edinburgh)

Associate with ICAS since 1928. Partner at Graham. Smart & Annan, Edinburgh in 1928; and ditto 1955. He is listed in the ICAS List of Members as having been awarded an Efficiency Decoration and a Ph.D. He also was also Mentioned in depatches in 1945.

 

• Read more about Bogie's story 
• Edinburgh Research archive: An investigation into the preparation of consolidated statements for holding companies by David James Bogie

No. 235309 Lieutenant Herbert William BONNELLO. 107th Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery, Royal Artillery

Place and date of capture: Western Desert, 27 May 1942 

Main Camps held in:

• PG 21
• Oflag IX-A/Z 
• Stalag XII-A 

Passed Intermediate Examination, January 1945.

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ACA 1947. with Robert A. Page & Co, 1950 and 1955. Articled with Robert St. Clair Page of Robert Page & Co., Nottingham. Passed Preliminary Examination in November 1935 (Nottingham High School). Passed the final Examination in November 1946.

Attended the President's reception in June 1945

No. 1443974 Lance-Sergeant John BOYCE. 234th Battery, 89th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment Regiment 

Date of Birth: 15/6/1921

Date of Enlistment: 8/2/1939

Place and date of capture: 1/6/1941, Crete

Wounds when captured: Septic leg (barbed wire)

Main camps held in:

• Stalag VII-B (Aug 1941- May 1942 and March 1943 - Feb 1945)
• Mankendorf Work Camp (saw mill); (May 1942-Mar 1943);
• Terezin Concentration Camp* (Feb 1945- March 1945)

* Boyce had originally written Kleine Festung and crossed it out. This is German for Small Fortress, which was the Gestapo prison in Theresienstadt as opposed to the concentration camp.

Did you sufferer from any serious  illness while a prisoner?: Jaundice due to poor diet when first captured

Escapes attempted:

1. Crete - left camp by night alone, recaptured German Army (not fit)
2. Mankedorf 3/43 cut wire while companions engaged guards attention. Alone recaptured 8 days later on Checkish farm by German Gendamarie. (fit)
3. Prague 2/45 Window of cattle truck with R Graham, D Owen. Recaptured by Todt organisation next day. (Fit)

Sabotage:

Made 2000 (approx) spokes of army wheels too large, each piece had to be cut by hand. Mankendorf Oct-Dec 1942

Exams at while in captivity: RSA Bookkeeping Stage 1;  Institute of Bookkeepers Associate and Fellowship examinations; Society of Incorporated Accountants Intermediate; ICAEW Intermediate (August 1943 at Oflag VII-B); ICAEW Final examination (August 1944)

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ACA 1948. With Price Waterhouse & Co, Leeds, 1950; Director W&J Rounce Ltd.. EC2 in 1955.  Articled with J.H.B Young of Reeves & Young, Canterbury. 

Attended the President's reception in June 1945

Captain James Clayton BREAKELL. 11th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery

Place of capture: Western Desert

Main camps held in:

• PG 78
• Oflag 79

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ACA 1933; c/o Kettlewell, Bullen & Co, Calcutta in 1940; c/o PO Box 742, Accra, Gold Coast (Ghana) in 1955. Articled with W, St L. Palmour of Titus Thorp & Ainsworth, Preston. Passed Final Examination in May 1933.

No. 1272454 Warrant Officer D J BRISTOW. RAF

• Stalag 344

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We have found no record of Bristow becoming a member of the ICAEW.

XXX BROWN. RAF

London Archive records refer to:

• FJC Brown-  unsuccessful July 1943 Stalag Luft III
• JJC Brown Intermediate 1943 Stalag Luft III

which is likely to be the same person.

Neither set of initials matches anyone in the List of Members

Denis William Graham BUTLER-SHAWE EC930, Royal Indian Army Service Corps,

• PG 75
• Oflag 79

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ACA 1936; c/o E.D. Sassoon Co. Ltd., Bombay in 1940; Chief Accountant, W.H. Gaze & Sons, Kingston, Surrey in 1955. Articled with R. Griffin, London. Passed Intermediate Examination in November 1932. Passed Final Examination in November 1935.

Attended the President's reception in June 1945

No. 74856 Warrant Officer Thomas Augustine BYRNE. 76 Squadron, RAF Bomber Command

Date of birth: 26 June 1916

Date of enlistment: June 1939

Place and date of capture: Louvain, Belgium. 5 August 1941.

Were you wounded when captured: Yes

Main camps or hospitals in which imprisoned:

• Dulag hospital, Frankfurt 5/8/1941 - 19/8/1941
• Stalag III-E  19/8/1941 - April 1941
• Stalag Luft III  April 1941 - June 1942
• Stalag Luft VI June 1943 - July 1944
• Stalag 357  July 1944 - Aug 1944
• Stalag 357 Aug 1944 - May 1945

Escape attempted: Collaboration in various efforts. Tunnelling.

Took Intermediate examination in August 1943 at Stalag Luft IV

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ACA 1949; Sidcup, Kent in 1955. Articled with R. Carew of W.Y. Thomson & Co, SW11. Final Examination taken in November 1948.

Notes: The National Archives has details of the crash of Byrne's Halifax bomber L9156. Byrne has escaped the crash of an Armstrong Whitley in October 1940, which killed two of the crew.

No. 90189 Lieutenant Thomas Michael CARMICHAEL. 1st East Riding Yeomanry, Royal Armoured Corps. II Corps British Expeditionary Force, 

Date of birth: 30 November 1916

Date of enlistment: May 1939

Captured: 30 May 1940, Watou, Belgium

Main camps held in:

• Oflag VII-C (Jun 1940 - March 1941
• Stalag XXI (March 1941- June 1941)
• Oflag V-B  (June 1941 - Oct 1941)
• Oflag VI-B (Oct 1941 - Sept 1942)
• Oflag VII-B (Sept 1942 - Aprl 1945)
• Stalag VII-A April 1945)

Serious illness while a PoW: Appendicitis

Final examination: January 1943

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M.A., LL.B. ACA 1947. With Buckley, Hall, Devin & Co, EC4 1950 and 1955;  Articled with W.B. Hall, Buckley of Hall, Devin & Co, Hull. 

Paymaster Lieutenant Norman Cassleton ELLIOTT. RNVR (mentioned in despatches twice 1941 and 1942)

We believe he was originally held at an Italian PoW camp.

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ACA 1947. With Cassleton Elliott & Co, EC2 in 1955. Articled with A.B. Keith, London.  Final Examination passed in November 1947.

No. 165814 Lieutenant George Anthony CHERRY, The Sherwood Foresters

Date of birth: 20/05/18
Place of birth: Mablethorpe, England

Captured: Cyrenaica (Libya)

Main camps held in:

• PG 21
• Oflag VIII-F
• Oflag 79 

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Final examination passed January 1944.

ACA 1945. Not in practice in 1947; With Price, Waterhouse & Co in 1950 and 1955. Articled with C.F. Gothard of Coxon, Bannister & Gothard, Burton-on-Trent. Passed Intermediate Examination in November 1938.

No. 164231 Lieutenant Peter William Aspinall CLAUSE. Royal Corps of Signals

Date and place of capture: Tunisia. 5 April 1943

• PG 206

Died as a prisoner of war 13 August 1943. Buried or commemorated at Milan War Cemetery, Italy

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Articled with ?

CH/X10049 Marine Francis Philip COLLINS , Royal Marines. 

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ACA 1940. Southampton in 1955. Articled with B.T. Crew, Luton. Passed Final Examination in August 1940. 

Attended the President's reception in June 1945

T/10673041 Driver Gordon COWCHER,  Royal Army Service Corps

Date of birth: 16 February 1913

Main camps held in:

• Stalag VII-A

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ACA 1940; FCA 1953. With Cowcher, Whitaker & Co , Gloucester in 1955. Articled with S.S. Harris, Bristol. Passed Intermediate Examination in May 1936. Passed the Final Examination in January 1940.

Attended the President's reception in June 1945

111123 Gunner Cecil Henry COWLEY. 5th Bty. 2nd AA (SAF) Union Defence Force

• Stalag 344 Dec 1944

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Job title on his MI9 form was 'South African Auditor'. Cowley is listed as member (1952) of the Society of Incorporated Accountants and Auditors with Douglas, Low & Co. in Johannesburg. He became an ACA in 1958 and was working for J.J.H. Plane & Co. Johannesburg S.A.

 

No. 915851 Warrant officer Reginald William COX. 103 Squadron RAF Bomber Command.

• Stalag Luft VI
• Stalag 357

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We cannot find having become a member of the ICAEW. We do, however, have a Robert Walker Cox (ACA 1929) but he doesn't seem to have served in the military.

No. 32408 Captain Ralph David DALE MBE.  2nd Bn. Transvaal Scottish, Union Defence Force. 2nd South African Division

Date of birth: 30 July 1914

Date of enlistment: 11 January 1940

Place and date of capture: Tobruk, 21 July 1942

Main camps held at:

• PG 75 (21/7/1942 - 31/7/1942)
• PG 21 (1/8/1942 - 21 Oct 1942)
• PG 47 (23/10/1942 - 11/9/1943)
• Stalag VIII-A (12/9/1943 - 20/9/1943)
• Stalag V-C (21/9/1943 - 8/20/1943)
• Oflag V-A (9/4/1943 - 31/3/1943)
• Stalag VIII-A (1/4/1945 - 29/4/1945)

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ACA 1945. Guildford, Surrey in 1955. Articled with J.W. Baird. Passed Final Examination in November 1936.

Attended the President's reception in June 1945

Note: Dale's MBE was awarded for his work as camp adjutant at Oflag V-A, "through his efforts that this camp had the reputation as being one of the best run in Germany. His work was contagious and his resourcefulness and courage an inspiration to all."

No. 932040 Aircraftman 2nd class, Stanley Thomas DAVIES,  RAFVR

date of birth: 31/1/1916

Taken Prisoner: 8 March 1942, Java

Died while a prisoner of war, 1st Nov 1944. Mina Island, Indonesia (Beri Beri)

Commemorated  at Ambon War Cemetery, Indonesia (buried at sea)

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ACA 1939. With D.B. Thomas, Howell & Co, Merthyr Tydfil in 1940. Articled with W.M. Howell of Thomas, Howell & Co, Merthyr Tydfil. Passed Final Examination in November 1938.

Alan Russel DICKINSON, Friends Ambulance Service attd. 8th General Hospital

b. 19 October 1915

Place and date captured: Greece March 1941

Main camps and hospitals held in 

• Stalag XX-A 
• Hospital in Konradstein (then East Prussia, now Stargard, Poland) adjacent to Stalag II-D

Took the Institute of Charted Secretaries Intermediate and Final Examinations while in XX-A, winning the 'Sir Ernest Clarke' prize in the final.

Acted as prison librarian and did some lecturing to the other prisoners.

Dickinson died (of a septic ulcer) in a prisoner of war camp on 21 December 1944 and is buried at the Konradstein Institute Cemetery, Poland

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B.A. (Com), ACA 1938. With Price Waterhouse & Co, EC2 in 1940. 

Articled with: J.M.S Coates, of Price Waterhouse & Co, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. Passed the Intermediate Examination in 1937 (18^th in the order or merit) and the Final Examination in May 1938 (16^th Certificate Merit)

• Read Dickinson's story

No.2587639 Driver Malcolm GELLATLY Middlesex Yeomanry, 2nd Armoured Division Signals

Date of birth: 1 September 1921

Date of Enlistment: 12 July 1939

Place and date of capture: Libya, 8 April 1941

Main camps held in:

• PG 78
• Stalag XI-B

Were you in a work camp:

• Adelebsen Bramburg 27/12/1943 - 20/11/1944 stone quarrying

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Articled with ?

We have not found any record of Gellatly becoming a member.

Attended the President's reception in June 1945

7916203 Lance Corporal Eric Lloyd GEORGE, Royal Armoured Corps. 6th Armoured Division, 1st Army

Date of birth: 13 September 1915

Date of enlistment:  22 August 1940

Place and date of capture: Thala, Tunisia. 22 February 1943

Main camps held in:

• PG 66 
• PG 53
• Stalag IV-C

Were you in a  working camp: M/S 51 Stalag IV-C 1/10/1943 - 8/5/1945 - coal mining

Sabotage:

Yes. Small acts of sabotage in coal mine e.g. derailing and cracking coal trucks, breaking cables and absenting from work.

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ACA 1939. Not in practice, Letchworth in 1940; Midland Employers' Mutual Assurance Ltd, Birmingham in 1955.Arteicled with E.J. Grande of  Knill, Padgham & Grande,W1. Passed Preliminary Examination in May 1933 (St Christopher School). Passed Intermediate Examination in May 1936.

No. 9090 Flight-Lieutenant John Arthur GILLIES AAF.  92 Squadron RAF Fighter Command.

Date of birth: 18 August 1912

Date of enlistment: Approx. April 1932

Place and date of capture: Boulogne, France. 25 May 1940

• Dulag Luft (Jun 40 - June 451)
• Stalag Luft I (June-Apr 1942)
• Stalag Luft III (Apr 42-Jan 45)
• Stalag Luft III-A (Jan-May 45)

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BA, ACA 1938. Not in Practice, NW3 in 1940; Webb, Stark & Co, Invercargill, New Zealand in 1955. Articled with C. Le C. Browning, London. Passed the Intermediate Examination in November 1936. Passed the Final Examination in May 1938.

The national archives has a record of the crash of Gillies's Spitfire N3290 

• Read more about Gillies

220596 Lieutenant Ronald George GOSLING. Field Regiment, Royal Artillery.

Place captured: North Africa

• PG 49

Gosling escaped from Italy and returned to Britain in 1944. He was promoted to Major and awarded the M.B.E.

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ACA 1939. With Thomson, Gregory, Thol & Co. EC2 in 1940. Secretary and accountant, English Drilling Equipment Co. Ltd. EC2 in 1955. Articled with E.J. Thol of Thomas, Gregory, Thol & Co. Intermediate Examination passed in November 1937. Final Examination passed in November 1938.

Attended the President's reception in June 1945

7910644 Trooper George Albert GREEN, 4th Hussars, Royal Armoured Corp.

Date of birth: 20/4/1917

Date of enlistment: 7/6/1940

Place and date of capture: Corinth, Greece 26/4/1941

Main Camps held in:

• XVIII-B/XVIII-A ( June 1941 - April 1942)
• 68 GW (April 1942 - Sept 1944)
• 1042 GW (Sep 1944 - May 1945)

Were you in a working camp? Labouring in 68 GW and 1042 GW 

Sabotage:

• Destruction of small objects (ovens, wheelbarrows, keys to lockers etc.)
• Water swept into electrical cable ways while washing floor of new factory

(at 68 GW 1942-44)

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ACA 1947. Secretary, Allied Paints & Chemicals Ltd, Birmingham 1955. Articled to H Reeve of Impey, Cudworth & Co., EC2 . Final Examination passed in May 1947.

Attended the President's reception in June 1945

No. 10541955 Private, Kenneth Compton GRIFFIN,  4th Ordnance Store Company, Royal Army Ordnance Corps

Date of birth: 14 February 1921

Captured: Malaya

• Kami (upper) Sonkurai Camp No 1, Thailand
• F Force Working Party, Thailand-Burma Railway

Died while a prisoner of war, 5th November 1943. Colitis, cremated.

Commemorated at Thanbyuzayat, War Cemetery, Myanmar

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Articled with  E. Cooper of Cooper & Cooper EC3. Passed Intermediate Examination in August 1940.

Harry HAMMOND, Straits Settlement Volunteer Force

Accidentally Killed while a prisoner of war, 7th Sept 1945

Died at Kuching, Sarawak. Commemorated or buried in Borneo

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ACA 1939; With Rennie, Lowick & Co, Singapore. Articled with R. Taylor, Scunthorpe. Passed Final Examination in November 1938

160644 Geoffrey Frank HARDING, 470th (Kent Yeomanry) Field Bty. /164 Field Regiment, Royal Artillery. 10th Indian Infantry Division

Date of birth: 16 January 1940

Date of enlistment: 16 September 1920

Place and date of capture: Egypt (probably Mersa Martrouh) 29 June 1942

Main camps held in: 

• PG 75 (July-Aug 1942)
• PG 21 (Aug 1942 - 30/9/1943)
• Stalag VII-A (4/10/1942 -10/12/1943)
• Oflag VIII-F (12/12/1944 -3 May 1944)
• Oflag 79 (4 May 1944 - 12 April 1945) 

Took the Intermediate Examination  at Oflag 79 in January 1945.

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ACA 1947. Assistant Accountant, E.S. & A. Robinson Ltd, Bristol in 1955. Articled to S,W. Cornwell of C Jenkins, Cornwell & Curtis,  Bristol. Passed Final Examination in May 1947.

 

J.C. HARPER (118264 John Christopher ?)

Took Final Examination in Jan 1943 at Stalag Luft VIII-B

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Articled with R.M Peat of Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. EC2. Passed Intermediate Examination May 1939.

We cannot find that Harper ever became an ICAEW member

No. 45597 Flight Lieutenant Charles Anthony HARRAP. 41 squadron RAF, Army co-operation

Date of birth: 6 September 1918

Date of enlistment: November 1936 Territorial Army, seconded to RAF 19th April 1941
Captured: Tebourba, near Tunis, 25 December 1942

Main camps held in:

• Dulag Luft (1/1/1943 - 3/2/1943)
• Stalag XXI-B Schubin (3/2/1943 - 12/4/1943)
• Stalag Luft III Sagan (12/4/1943 -  27/1/1945)
• Marlag und Milag Nord Tarmstedt (4/2/1945- 10/4/1945)
• Trenthorst nr Lubeck (10/4/1945)

Serious illnesses while a PoW: Arthritis caused by march from Sagan (about a month).

Interrogation: I was kept in solitary confinement for 19 days at Dulug Luft in an attempt to find out my squadron number

Escape attempts: No, only general help in the camp.

Final examination (January 1944, taken in May 1944) at Stalag Luft III

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ACA 1946; Not in practice in 1947; With Plummer & Parsons, Eastbourne in 1950; Plummer, Parsons & Harrap, Eastbourne in 1955. Articled with J.A Hill Junior of Arnold Hill & Co, SW1, 

Notes: The National Archives have details of the crash of Harrap's aircraft Hawker Hurricane IIe Trop BE689

No. 105147 Captain Anthony Edgar Cox HARTNELL. 9th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry

Date of birth: 24 April 1917
Place of birth: Kingston, Surrey

Captured: Western Desert

Main camps held in:

• PG 78
• Oflag V-A Weinsburg

Passed Final examination in January 1945.

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ACA 1946, FCA 1952; With Legg, London & Co., SW1 in 1947; Legg, London & Co. SW1 and R.G. Wallis & Co, EC4 in 1955. Articled with B.A. Smith of B.A. Smith & Co, EC4. Passed Intermediate Examination in November 1937. 

Passed SIAA Final examination in December 1943

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Articled with McFadden & Wylie, Belfast.  Associate of SIAA , 1945. Accountant & Assistant Secretary, Northern Ireland Local Government Officers' Superannuation Committee, Belfast in 1955.

It is likely Harvey joined the Irish Institute when SIAA merged with ICAEW in 1957.

No. 166631 Lieutenant Richard Roland William HAZEL, 118th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery. 55th Infantry Brigade, 18h Division

Captured: 15 February 1942, Singapore

Died while a prisoner of war, 11th January 1943. Diptheria. Thailand-Burma Railway.

Commemorated at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, Thailand 

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Articled with L.F Foster, Birmingham, Passed Intermediate Examination in November 1935. Passed Final Examination in January 1940.

No. 131824 Flight Lieutenant Ronald HEATHERINGTON. 106 Squadron, RAF Bomber Command<

Date of birth: 24 May 1922

Date of enlistment: 27 June 1941

Captured: Bad Durkheim, near Mannheim 23/9/1943

Main camps held in:

• Stalag Luft III (9 Oct 1943 - 27 Jan 1945)
• Marlag unt Milag Nord (2 Feb 1945 - 10 April 1945)

Passed Immediate Examination in January 1945 at Stalag Luft III

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ACA 1947. With Seddon, Magnay & Spoors, Newcastle in 1950 and 1955. Articled with G. Magnay, Newcastle upon Tyne. passed the Final Examination in May 1947.

Attended the President's reception in June 1945

Notes: The RAF Commands website had details of the crash of Heatherington's aircraft, Avro Lancaster III DV271

No. 151706 Lieutenant Stanley John HEMMINGS, Royal Artillery.

Captured: North Africa

Main camps held in:

• PG 49

Hemmings escaped from Italy and returned to Great Britain in 1944.

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ACA 1952. 3 Throgmorton Avenue EC2 in 1955.

Attended the President's reception in June 1945

No. 82180 Flight Lieutenant John HENDERSON. 10 Squadron RAF Bomber Command

Date of birth: 14 October 1919

Date of enlistment: 28 May 1939

Place and date of capture: Oslo, 8th November 1941

Main Camps held at:  

• Dulag Luft
• Stalag Luft I
• Stalag Luft III
• Marlag unt Milag Nord
• Oflag X-C

Did you suffer any illnesses whilst a PoW?: Dysentry (10 days)

Exams passed while a PoW: 2nd Half Intermediate Examination

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There are two John Henderson who became ACAs after 1945, but neither has a D.F.C in their post nominals.

The national archives has details of the crash of Henderson's Hampden I AD760

No. 911891 Bombardier, Douglas Barker HERBERT. 125th Anti-tank Regiment, Royal Artillery

Place and date of capture: Singapore, 15 February 1942

Died while a prisoner of war, 15th October 1942

Buried or commemorated at Kranji War Cemetery, Singapore

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Articled with: ? 

No. 1101962 Warrant Officer Richard Hanmer HILTON-JONES. 115 Squadron, 3 Group,  RAF

Date of birth: 2/11/1913

Date of enlistment: 24/6/1940

Place and date captured: Louvain, Belgium 6/8/1941

Wounded when captured: Bruised

Main camps held in:

• Stalag III-E  (Aug 1941 - May 1942)
• Stalag Luft III (May 1942 - July 1943)
• Stalag Luft VI (July 1942 - July 1944)
• Stalag XI-B  (July 944- April 1945)

Interrogation:

In Stalag Luft. Put in solitary confinement. Red Cross form given but did not fill in. No information given away.

Escape attempts:

The whole of Stalag III-E worked on a tunnel through which I was going to escape. Part of camp moved to Sagan [Stalag Luft III] before tunnel was finished. I was one of those moved. The tunnel was subsequently used 7 days later 52 then escaped.

Exams take in captivity: ICAEW Final examination, August 1944 at Stalag Luft III

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ACA 1945; With  Asbury, Riddell & Co, Shropshire in 1947; Ashbury, Riddell & Co, Shropshire. Articled with F.J. Blythe of R.P Heywood, Blythe & Co., Liverpool. Passed Preliminary Examination in May 1934 whilst a pupil at Shrewsbury School. Passed Intermediate Examination in November 1937. 

Notes: The National Archives have details of the crash of Hilton-Jones aircraft, Vickers Wellington R1471.

No. 117961 Lieutenant John Aubrey HOLLICK. 18th  Recce Corps. 18 Division

Date of birth: 30 April 1913. 
Place of Birth: St Anne's-on-Sea, Lancashire

Place and date of capture: Singapore, 15 February 1942

Held in camps in Singapore and Formosa (Taiwan)

Died while a prisoner of war, 2nd March 1945. Died on the South China Sea (in transit to Japan) of Landyr's Ascending Paralysis (possible complication of Beri Beri)

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ACA 1935. With Price, Waterhouse & Co EC2 in 1940. Articled with C. Edwards of Parker, Edwards & Co., Preston. Passed Final Examination in November 1934. 

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No. 155114 Captain Christopher James HOLLIDAY.  22nd Armoured Bde (10) Company, Royal Army Service Corp,

Date of birth: 29 April 1917

Date of enlistment: 12/7/1939 in Territorial Army

Place and date of capture: Tobruk, 21 June 1942

Main camps or hospitals in which imprisoned:

• PG 75 (27/6/1942 - 4/8/1942)
• PG 21 (5/8/1942 - 23/9/1943)
• Stalag VIII-A (10/11/1943 - 8/12/1943)
• Oflag VIII-F (10/12/1943 - 1/5/1944)
• Oflag 79 (3/5/1944 - 23/4/1945)

Did you suffer from an illness while a PoW?: Jaundice lack of food (3 weeks)

Did you receive adequate treatment: No

Escape attempts:

Off train from Sulmona to Rome, west of Avezzano separately recaptured same day, Oct 1st 1943 by Luftwaffe AA Regt. Not in good physical condition.

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ACA 1951. With Randall & Payne, Stroud and Melksham, Gloucestershire in 1955. Passed Preliminary Examination in May 1936 (Charterhouse). Articled with E.G. Davie, Birmingham. Intermediate Examination passed in May 1939. 

Lieutenant Richard Fosbrooke HOLLOWAY. Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment (Sherwood Foresters)

Main camps held in:

• Oflag IX-A/Z 

Unsuccessful in Intermediate Examination, Aug 1944 at Oflag IX

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ACA 1948. With Derbyshire & Co, Nottingham and London SW1 in 1955. Articled with F. Pragnell of Mellors, Basden & Mellors Nottingham. Final Examination passed in May 1948.

Captain Charles William Frederick HOPE (3rd Marquess of Linlithgow, Earl of Hopetoun). 1st Lothian & Borders Yeomanry, Royal Armoured Corps.

 

Place and date captured: France, 1940

• Oflag IV-C
• Oflag VI-B

Unsuccessful in Intermediate Examination January 1943, Oflag VI-B

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We can't find that Hope ever became an ICAEW member.

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No. 124592 Captain Kenneth Ian HOUSTON. 5th Bn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers

Date of birth: 22 November 1910

Date of enlistment:9 September 1939

Place and date of capture: Gou Balat, Tunisia. 22 December 1942

Main camps or hospitals in which imprisoned:

• PG 66 (Jan - March 1943)
• PG 25 (March - Sept 1943)
• Stalag VII-A (Oct - Dec1943)
• Stalag VIII-F (Jan - March 1944)
• Oflag 79 (May 1944 - April 1945)

Interrogation:

Normal interrogation by enemy Division HQ and at base HQ in Tunis. Stooges wearing RAF uniform  were put in quarters with PoWs in Tunis Barracks for a short time.

Took Final Examination in March 1945

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Articled to H.L. Ward FCA of James E. Ward & Sons WC1. 

We can't find that Houston ever became a member of the ICAEW.

No. S/116004 Sergeant Frank HUNKIN. 312 Company Royal Army Service Corps. 2nd Armoured Division.

Date of birth: 24 September 1917

Date of enlistment: 9 October 1939

Place and date of capture: Greece, 29 April 1941

Main camps of hospitals held in:

• Stalag XVIII-A (July 1941 - July 1942)
• Stalag XVIII-B (July 1942 - Sept 1942)
• Stalag 383 (Sept 1942 - April 1943)

Were you in a working camp? Near Spittal (July 1941 - June 1942) Road making

Passed the SIAA Intermediate examination in July1943

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Articled with Ware, Ward & Co, Exeter. SIAA Associate 1947. Internal Auditor, County Treasurer's Department, Taunton in 1955.

No. 68445 Lieutenant Charles Norman HURST. Royal Artillery (Base depot, flying column Field Artillery)

Date of birth: 22 August 1908

Date of enlistment: 23 July 1936

Place and date of capture: France, 23 May 1940

Were you wounded when captured:

Main camps or hospitals in which imprisoned:

• Oflag VIII-C (June 1940 - March 1941)
• Stalag XX-I-D (March 1941 - April 1941)
• Stalag XX-A  (April 1941 - Oct 1941)
• Oflag V-B (June 1941 - Oct 1941)
• Oflag VI-B (Oct 1941 - Sept 1942)
• Ofag VII-B (Sept 1942 - April 1945)

Escape attempts:

At Oflag V-B, Sept 1941, tunnelling, names of all companions not remembered, Maj. Rattray NZEF (Security Officer) will supply those. Recaptured in tuennel by guard company and reinforcements. Physically fit for walking etc. Companions captured same time and place.

On MI9 questionnaire his occupation is listed as Company Accountant and exams taken were Institute of Cost and Works Accountants (Intermediate and Final). However ICAEW records show Final Examination being taken  in January at 1943 Oflag VI-B. However this record doesn't specifically state ICAEW or ICWA (now CIMA).

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Articled to H.L. Ward FCA of James E. Ward & Sons WC. We can find no record of Hurst becoming an ICAEW member.

No.71604 Lieutenant Edwin William Ian JOHNSON. 4th Battalion Royal Northumberland Fusiliers 

Date of birth: 18th July 1915

Date of enlistment: May 1937

Captured: Arras, 21st May 1940

Main camps held in:

• Oflag VII-C (6/1/1940 - March 1941)
• Stalag XX1-D (March 1941 - April 1941)
• Stalag XX-A  (April 1941 - June 1941)
• Oflag V-B (June 1941 - Sept 1941)
• Oflag VI-B (Sept 1941 - Oct 1942)
• Oflag VII-B (Oct 1942 - April 1945)
• Stalag VII-A  (April 1945 - May 1945)

Intermediate Examination (August 1943) taken at Oflag VII. Unsuccessful in the final examination in August 1944.

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We have not found any record of Johnson having passed the final examination and becoming an ACA. 

Note: on all other documentation Johnson's service number is given as 71598

No. 135287 Pilot Officer Arthur Patrick KERNON 1409 (Metrological) Flight, RAF Bomber Command

Date of birth: 3/7/1922

Date of enlistment: November 1941

Place and date captured: Dahn, Germany 22 or 23/7/1943

Main camps held in:

• Stalag Luft III Sagan (7 Aug1943 - Jan 1944)
• Stalag Luft III Belaria (Jan 1944-Jan 1945)
• Stalag III-A  (Jan 1945 -May 1945)

Interrogation: At Dulag Luft, interrogators insisted that there was a third person on board whom they had not yet found. In fact the crew consisted of two people.

Have you any other matter of any kind you wish to bring to notice: We landed on the 19th July 1943 at 5am and evaded capture for 5 or 6 days during which time we made our way towards the Franco-Swiss border, eventually captured near Dahn.

Final examination (January 1944) at Stag Luft III.

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ACA 1947. Working in practice, South Woodford, Essex. 1950 and 1955. Articled with W. Young of Frederick B. Smart & Co. London. Passed Final Examination in November 1946.

Attended the President's reception in June 1945.

Notes: Kernon was an observer on De Havilland Mosquito B IX LR502 

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Company Quarter-Master Sergeant, Thomas Gleeson LAFFAN, 1st Bn (Singapore Volunteer Corps), Straits Settlements Volunteer Force

Date of birth: 28 December 1901

Place and date of capture: Singapore, 15 February 1942

Died while a prisoner of war, 10th June 1945. Died of 'inflammation of intestines'. Thailand-Burma Railway

Buried or cremated at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, Thailand;

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ACA 1923. With McAuliffe, Turquand, Youngs & Co, Penang, Straits Settlements, in 1940.

145985 Captain William Englebert LAMAISON. No. 5 AA ops room Royal Artillery. 8th Army

Date of birth: 12 April 1911

Date of enlistment: 20 April 1939 (Territorial)

Place and date captured: Tobruk, 21 Jun 1942

Main camps of hospitals imprisoned in:

•  ? Bari  1/7/1942 - 16/8/1942
• PG 21 18/8/1942 - 12/4/1943
• PG 49 19/4/1943 - 9/9/
• In transit - Italy - Germany
• Oflag VIII-F
• Oflag 79

Interrogation:

After recapture in Italy ay Parma GHQ, I was asked name, rank etc and whether in my travels I had seen other ex PoWs and in which direction travelling. On not answering last question I was most courtesy told that the interrogator was aware I need not answer this  and as declining the interview ended.

Escape attempts:

On the Italian armistice with the rest of PG 49 we left the camp approx. I hour before Germans arrived. I was with Lt. Chamberlain R.A.. and later joined with Capt. Floyer-Acland D.C.L.I. and Lt. Horner D.C.L.I. we moved round the Apennine mountain range. I was recaptured by Fascists (through the agency of a spy) on 10th November 1943 between Bardi and Borgo Tara.

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Exam invigilator at Offag 79.

ACA 1935, FCA 1945. With J.L. Harper, Lamaison & Co., EC3 in 1939; With Miall, Harper & Co., EC3 in 1955. Articled with J.S Feather, London. Passed Intermediate Examination in May 1932. Passed Final Examination in May 1934.

Attended the President's reception in June 1945

No. 91225 Captain Peter Buchanan LAKE. 2/5th Bn. Essex Regiment. 

Captured: Western Desert

Main camps held at:

• PG 21
• Oflag 79

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ACA 1938. Not in Practice, Braintree, Essex in 1940. Director & Secretary, Lake & Elliott & Co.in 1955. Articled to K.R. Colman of Spain Brothers & Co, Braintree. Passed the Preliminary Examination in November 1931 (Felsted School). Passed the Final Examination in May 1938.

Attended the President's reception in June 1945

No. 121842 Lieutenant Peter Mabson LAMBIRTH. 2/4 Bn. King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, 46th Division

Date of birth: 1/1/1917

Date of enlistment: September 1939

Captured: Pont de L'Arche, France 13/6/1940 

Wounded when captured: yes

Main camps held in:

• Marcoing Hospital (June -Aug 1940)
• Front Stalag [Dulag] Cambrai (Aug-Oct 1940)
• Oflag XVII-A  (Oct 1940 - 29 Nov 1940)
• Oflag VII-D  (30 Nov 1940 - Sept 1941)
• Oflag VI-B  (Sept 1941 - Sept 1942)
• Oflag VII-B  (Sept 1942 - 14 April 1945)

Escape attempts: Oflag VI-B, Summer '42, by tunnel. Attempt failed.

Took Final Examination January 1943, in Oflag VII-B

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ACA 1945. Accountant to private company in 1947; Secretary of Skyways Ltd in 1950. Secretary, Edmunds, Waller & Co. Ltd. 1955.

Articled with P.G. Lambirth of P.G. Lambirth & Co, Kingston-on-Thames. Took Preliminary Examination in May 1934, while a pupil at St. Albans School. Passed the Intermediate Examination in November 1937. 

89100 Captain Garth Armitage LEDGARD. 60th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery. Mentioned in despatches 1945.

Place captured: Middle East

• PG 41
• PG 49

Gave lectures in camps.

Was reported as 'previously reported Prisoner of war now in Neutral Country (between July 1943 and March 1944) and later 'previously reported in neutral country now arrived in United Kingdom (between Aug 1944 and April 1945.)

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ACA 1934. WC2 in 1939; Auckland, New Zealand in 1955. Articled with M.C. Cole of Cole, Dickin & Hills, WC2. Passed Intermediate Examination in May 1932. Passed Final Examination in May 1934.

Attended the President's reception in June 1945

Armitage transferred to New Zealand Royal Artillery and was promoted to Major in 1953. He was posted to the retired list on 1 January 1958 and had been awarded the Efficiency Decoration for his service.

His company, Garth Armitage Ltd., was dissolved in 1983.

EC 1126 Captain Magnus Slater LENNIE. Prince Albert Victor's Own Cavalry, Indian Army.

Main camps held in:

• PG21
• Oflag 79

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ACA 1936. Victoria House, Calcutta in 1939; Anaza Co, Kuwait in 1955. Articled with D.M. Touche, London. Passed Final Examination in November 1933.

No. 823399 Lance Corporal Dennis Nathan LEVITT. 5th Bde. Signal Company, Union Defence Force

Date of birth: 14 December 1920

Date of enlistment: 10 July 1940

Place and date of capture: Tobruk, 21 June 1942

Main camps or hospitals you were held in:

• PG 60 July-Nov 1942
• PG 65 Nov-April 1943
• Dist di Lavora V (75) April-Aug 1943
• PG 82 Aug-Sept 1943
• Stalag 344 March 1944 - March 1945
• Stalag VII-B March - April 1945

Were you in a working camp?: Lucera, Italy (April-Aug 1943). Farming.

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Levitt's MI9 questionnaire does give articled clerk as his occupation but he does not appear in the ICAEW list of members. His address is given as Bloemfontein, South Africa, so may be associated with a South African institute. 

No. 1088042 Gunner Wilfrid Norman LUDLOW, 124 Field Regiment Royal Artillery. 50th Division. 

Date of birth: 4 March 1917

Date of enlistment: 26 September 1940

Place and date of capture: Tobruk, 22 June 1942.

Main camps or hospitals in which imprisoned:

• Various between Tobruk and Tripoli 22/6/1942 - 5/11/1942
• PG 98 8/11/1942 - 4/12/142
• PG 73 5/12/1942 - 22/9/1943
• Stalag IV-B 24/9/1943 - 13/10/1943
• Stalag IV-G -K266 14/10/1943 - 23/3/1945

Were you in a working camp: Döbeln, Saxony (14/10/1943 - 23/3/1945)

• Railway -maintenance of permanent way - repairing bomb damage 
• ARP construction

Did you suffer from an illness while a PoW?: Pleurisy caused by working in a wet tunnel and malnutrition (1 month 24/3 - 24/4/1945)

Did you receive adequate treatment: Yes, when I got to a hospital after 5 days

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ACA 1940; With Price, Waterhouse & Co in 1955. Articled with D.S. Cowley, Abingdon. Passed Intermediate Examination in May 1938. Passed Final Examination in August 1940.

Attended the President's reception in June 1945. 

Lance Corporal I.M. MacDONALD

Took Intermediate Examination August 1942 

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May be: Ian Murdo McDonald

ACA 1947. With Wright, Stevens & Lloyd and A. Hornsby & Co., EC4 and A. Horby & Co., Sutton in 1955. Articled with C. Stevens of Wright, Stevens & Lloyd, EC4. Final Examination passed in June 1945.

Chair of Camp Society of accountants and secretaries Oflag VIII-F

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CA 1931. 45 Charlotte Square, Edinburgh in 1939 and 1955

No.121807 Lieutenant Raymond Barry MALDEN, 8th Battalion Royal Worcestershire Regiment. 48th Division.

Date of birth: 10 September 1917
 
Date of enlistment: October 1939

Place and date of capture: France, 29 May 1940

Main camps or hospitals in which imprisoned:

• Oflag VII-C (June 1940 March 1941)
• Stalag XXI-D (March 1941 - April 1941)
• Stalag XX-A (April 1941 - June 1941)
• Oflag V-B (June 1941 - Oct 1941)
• Oflag VI-B (Oct 1941 - Sept 1942)
• Oflag VII-B (Sept 1942 - April 1944)
• Stalag VII-A (April 1945 - May 1945)
  
  

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We have not found any record of Malden becoming a member.

 

129348 Lieutenant Peter Stanley MARCHANT, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry. 

Place and date captured: Western Desert, 5 June 1942

Main camps held in:

• PG 35
• Oflag V-A

Unsuccessful in Intermediate Examination at Oflag V  in  Aug 1944

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ACA 1950. Secretary, The Bedlam Packing & Rubber Co. Ltd. EC3 in 1955. Passed Preliminary Examination in November 1938 (Aldenham School).

Attended the President's reception in June 1945

No. 146689 Lieutenant Vivian Ratcliff MATTHEWS, 8th Coastal Regiment, Royal Artillery.

Birth date: About 1900

Place and date of capture: 25 December 1941, Hong Kong

Died while a prisoner of war, 13th Feb 1943

Buried in Yokohama British Commonwealth War Cemetery, Japan

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ACA 1924. Not in practice, Shaw, Darby & Co Ltd, EC3 in 1940.

J.D. Marsden

Intermediate Examination taken January 1943 at Oflag VI-B

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We have not identified this Prisoner of War

Lieutenant Eric Cubitt MEADE. Hampshire Regiment.

Place and date captured: Italy, 1943

Main camps held in:

• Oflag VII-A
• Oflag 79

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Studied for the Society of Incorporated Accountants exams, but didn't take them until his repatriation, but while still serving overseas.

Associate of Institute of Incorporated Accountants and Auditors (1947) with Deloitte, Plender, Griffiths & Co., EC2 in 1955.

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No. 1222450 Warrant Office Thomas METCALFE. 102 Squadron, RAF Bomber Command.

Date of birth: 6 October 1916

Date of enlistment: 19 December 1940

Place and date of capture: Cologne, Germany. 5 October 1942

Main camps or hospitals in which imprisoned:

• Stalag 344 (20/10/1943 - 22/1/1945)

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ACA 1946. Mill Hill, Middlesex in 1955. Articled with W.H Warren of W.H. Harold Warren & Co., Derby. Final Examination passed in May 1946.

Attended the President's reception in June 1945

Note: The National Archives ahs a record of the crash of Metcalfe's Handley Page Halifax II W7824

No. 13874 Private Alexander George Brian Mitchell, 1st Bn. Straits Settlement Volunteer Force

Place and date of capture: Singapore, 1942

Died while a prisoner of war, 25th March 1944. Died of acute enteritis

Buried or cremated at Chungkai War Cemetery, Thailand

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Articled with: ?

No. 121848 Lieutenant Roger Henry MORE. Kings Royal Rifle Company (attached to HQ, 1st Support Group), 1st Armoured Division

Date of birth: 28 March 1916

Date of enlistment: 10(?) September 1939

Captured:12 June 1940, Vueles-le-Roses, France

Main camps held in:

• Oflag VI-D  (1 Sep 1940 - Oct 1941)
• Oflag VI-B  (Oct 1941 - Sep 1942)
• Oflag VII-B  (Sep 1942 - Jan 1944)
• Oflag VIII-F  (Jan 1944 - May 1944)
• Oflag VIII-F 79 [Oflag 79] Brunswick [Braunschweig]

Have you any other matter of any kind you wish to bring to notice ?: I spent practically all the time (except short periods spent in hospital or goal) from October 10th 1942 to November 21st 1943 in chains at Oflag VII-B (Eichstaat)

Passed Intermediate and Final examinations (August 1943)  at Oflag VII-B.

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BA, ACA 1948.  With Woodhouse, Bevan & Co, London, 1950 and 1955. Articled with F.W. Charles of Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co., EC2. 

Attended the President's reception in June 1945

No. 88476 Flight Lieutenant Walter McDonald MORISON. 103 Squadron, RAF bomber Command

Date of birth: 26 November 1919

Date of enlistment: 15 September 1939

Place and date of capture: Near Geldern Germany. 7 June 1942.

Where you injured when captured?: Yes. Dislocated shoulder, concussion

Main camps held in:

• Stalag VI-J
• Dulag Luft
• Stalag Luft III
• Oflag IV-C

Did you receive adequate medical care: Initial treatment of shoulder and arm injuries were poor and resulted in permanent  disability (slight)

Escape attempts: Escaped rom Stalag Luft III on 11 November 1943 with 23 other officers. Recaptured 8 days later at Sagan aerodrome after attempting to take two German aircraft. Companion F/Lt Welch. 

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ACA 1949. Articled with xx of Morison, Rutherford & Co. With Morrison, Rutherford & Co., EC3 in 1955.

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Notes: The National Archives has details of the crash of Morison's aircraft Vickers Wellington IC DV699

Morison wrote a book about his experiences, Flak and Ferrets - One Way to Colditz (Sentinel Publishing, 1995)

No. 88373 Lieutenant Harold Charles MOUNSEY. 68th (4th West Lancashire) Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery

Date of birth: 20 April 1918

Date of enlistment: April 1939 (Territorial Army)

Place and date of capture: Tobruk, Libya. 21 June 1942. 

Main camps or hospitals in which imprisoned: 

• PG 75 (2/7/1942 - 4/8/1942)
• PG 21 (4/8/1942 - Sept 1943)
• Oflag VIII-F (20/12/1943 - May 1944)
• Oflag 79 (May 1944 - 23/4/1945)

Interrogation: After recapture only. Interrogated by German W.O. No Violence used.

Escape attempts:

Escaped train whilst being moved by Germans from Italy to Germany. Jumped from a train at Roviano 60km from Rome on October 1st 1943 with Lieutenant J.W Hill R..A. Recaptured Oct 28th 1943 by Germans. Both of use were physically fit. Recaptured at Ansoli.

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ACA 1949. With Harwood, Banner, Lewis & Mounsey in 1950, Articled with W.E .Mounsey of Mounsey & Lewis. passed Final Examination in May 1949.

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No. 914886 Lance Sergeant Basil John MUNYARD. 367 Battery, 140th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery

Date of birth: 23 May 1920

Date of enlistment: 1 September 1938

Place and date of capture: 30 May 1940. Franco-Belgian Frontier

Were you wounded when captured: Yes

Main camps or hospitals in which imprisoned:

• Limburg (June 1940 - July 1940)
• Stalag VIII-B (July 1940 - Sept 1942)
• Oflag III / Stalag 383 (Sept 1942 -  April 1945)

Were you in a working camp: Yes

• Hindenburg (July - Oct) - general navvying
• Gleiwitz (Oct - Nov) - general navvying

Did you suffer from an illness while a PoW?:

• Ulcers and decay of skin caused by leg injury in Tip-Rly (?) accident and dirt, lice, lack of attention and under nourishment. Sent to hospital Nov 1940, discharged after 3 weeks. Readmitted one month later for 15 weeks.
• Angina. Annual occurrence. Admitted to hospital 2/3 times each year.

Did you receive adequate treatment: English doctors complained of shortage of necessary supplies

Escape attempts:

• June 1940. Escaped from line of march in Belgium with another sergeant (name unknown). Re-captured (2 days later) in enemy farm building near Cambrai.
• April 1945. Escaped from line of march on night of 17rth April with Sgt. R.C. Sperrey (Royal Corps of Signals) and Cpl. R. Bradley (Air Troops).

Sabotage: Encouraged men to derail engines whenever the opportunity presented itself

Intermediate Examination passed in January 1943, Stalag VIII-B

Also passed London University Inter B. Commerce. Bcom

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Attended the President's reception in June 1945

ACA 1951. NW3 in 1955. Passed final examination in November 1950. Articled to R.P. Chambers of William S. Ogle, Sons & Porter, EC2.

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Captain Guy Vyvyan NEUBRONNER. Straits Settlement Volunteer Force

Date of birth: 25 February 1897

Date of enlistment: 31 March 1925

Place and date of capture: Singapore, 15 February 1942

What camps, hospitals or detachments were you in?:

• Changi, Singapore (15/2/1942 - 25/10/1942)
• Kanyu, Thailand (1/11/1942 - 21/3/1943)
• Chungkai, Thailand (1/4/1943 - 30/4/1944)
• Tumuan, Thailand (1/5/1944 - 15/6/1944)
• Nakompatom, Thailand (16/4/1944 - 2/4/1945)
• Kanburi, Thailand (3/4/1945 -15/8/1945)

(liberated 2/9/1945)

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Became an Associate of the ISAA in 1924. With Evatt & Co, Singapore in 1939. With Thomson, Mclintock & Co., EC4 in 1955. Became an ACA in 1958 and FCA in 1960.

Neubronner's wife, Olga, was a Sister with the Colonial Nursing Service and died in a Japanese prison camp in Sumatra of malaria and colitis, aged 39.

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No. 99722 Captain Edward Ernest NEWBAld. 2nd Bn. Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment. 

Place and date captured: Middle East, Aegean

Main camps held in:

• Oflag 79

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ACA 1935. FCA 1952. With Tingle, Comber & Co, WC2 and J.H. Hugill & Co, Waltham Cross in 1955. Articled with H.S. Brett of Callingham, Brown & Co, Ec2. Passed Final Examination in November 1934.

Attended the President's reception in June 1945

No. 7894089 Trooper Guy Weston PAYNE. 2nd Bn. Royal Gloucestershire Hussars, Royal Armoured Corps

Born: 1920

Place and date captured: Western Desert. 19 November 1941 (wounded)

Main camps held in:

• PG 65
• Stalag IV-D/Z
  
  

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ACA 1951. United Africa Co. Ltd. Freetown, Sierra Leone 1955. Passed final examination  in November 1950. Articled with  W.R. Payne of Randall & Payne, Devizes.

No. 980773 Gunner Henry Thomas PAYNTER. 32nd Field Regiment, Royal Artillery. 10th Indian Division.

Date of birth: 22 April 1920

Date of enlistment: 27 April 1940

Place and date of capture: El Darba, N Africa

Main camps or hospitals in which imprisoned:

• Benghazi, Libya (July-Aug 1942)
• PG 75 (Aug-Sept 1942)
• PG 70 (Sept 1942 - 18/9/1943)
• Stalag IV-G (Oct 1943 - 1/3/1944)
• Stalag IV-C (1/6/1944 - 8/5/1945)

Were you in a working camp:

• Stalag IV-G Oct 1943 - 3 Jan 1944 pick & shovel
• Stalag IV-C 6 Jan 1944 - 8 May 1945 pick & shovel

Did you suffer from an illness while a PoW?: Septic left thigh caused by cold, damp, lack of food (3 months)

Did you receive adequate treatment: yes

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ACA 1948. Cooper Brothers & Co in 1955. Articled with E.M. Worsfold, Dover. Final Examination passed in November 1947.

No. 113434 2nd Lieutenant John Robert PEACOCK. 4th Bn, Queens' Own Hussars

Date of birth: 29 November 1912

Date of enlistment: Territorial Army ranks April 1938; Commissioned rank Jan 1940.

Place and date of capture: Patras, Greece. 27 April 1941. 

Main camps or hospitals in which imprisoned:

• Oflag V-G (June 1941 - Oct 1941)
• Oflag VI-G (Oct 1941 - Sept 1942)
• Oflag VII-G (Sept 1942 - April 1945)
• Oflag VII-A (Apr 1945 - May 1945) 

Did you suffer from an illness while a PoW?:

1. Blood poisoning due 2 scratch (2 months)
2. Weak bladder (cause unknown) (4 ½ years)

Did you receive adequate treatment: 

1. Yes
2. Apparently nothing could be done

Interrogation: Ordinary. After being given champagne and an attempted friendly atmosphere created.

Escape attempts: 

• Greece. Jump from lorry with Lt Hornby (4th Q.O.H) May 1941. Immediately recaptured with aid of Greek M.O.s
• Salonika - wire crawl with Lt. Hornby 4 Queen's Own Hussars who was shot and killed in the attempt. Approx date May 1941.
• Warburg - Work on a tunnel from which forbidden personally to evacuate owing to contraction of blood poisoning while digging.

Instructor at Oflag VI-B. Took Society of Arts Part1 Italian examination.

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ACA 1936. with Price Waterhouse & Co, EC2 in 1939; Secretary, Harry Ferguson Holdings Ltd, Cheltenham in 1955. Articled with G.B. Norton of Armitage & Norton, London. Passed Final Examination in November 1935.

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No. 70541 Squadron leader Geoffrey Fitzgerald PHIPPS. RAFVR. 57 Squadron Bomber Command. 

Date of birth: 26 September 1910

Date of enlistment: July 1930

Place and date of capture: Near Hamburg. 18 April 1942 

Main camps or hospitals in which imprisoned:

• Stalag Luft III Sagan (25/4/1942 - 21/1/1945)
• Stalag Luft III Tarmstedt (4/2/1945 - 10/4/1945) 

Did you suffer from an illness while a PoW?:

Deterioration of eyesight, probably due to diet. From February 1944, still continuing.

Did you receive adequate treatment: Yes, except as regards treatment from above mentioned disability which was probably impossible in the circumstances. 

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ACA 1937, FCA 1946. Phipps & Co, Rye, Sussex in 1955. Articled with P. Phipps of Phipps & Co., Rye. Passed the Final Examination in May or June 1937.

Attended the President's reception in June 1945

Notes; the National Archives has details of the crash of Phipps's Vickers Wellington III X3478

No. 13501 Private Alan Ball PIRRIE. 1st Bn. Straits Settlements Volunteer Force, Singapore Volunteer Corps

Born: 23 January 1902

Date and place of capture: 15 February 1942

Died while a prisoner of war, 26th August 1943

Buried or cremated at: Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, Myanmar

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Articled with T.A. Grant, or Bourner, Bullock & Co., Hanley Staffordshire. Final Examination passed in May 1935.

No. 891094 Lance Bombardier Harry POOLE. 88th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery. 

Date of birth: 4 April 1911

Place and date of capture: 15 February 1942

Died while a prisoner of war, 9th June 1943 (Cardiac Beri Beri). Thailand-Burma Railway.

Buried or commemorated at Chungkai War Cemetery, Thailand

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ACA 1934. With Titus Thorp & Ainsworth, Preston in 1940. Articled to: W.H Ainsworth of Titus Thorp & Ainsworth, Preston. Passed Final Examination in May 1934.

6105146 Corporal John Henry William POOLEY. 1/6th Queen’s Royal Regiment 

Place and date captured: Western Desert

Main camps held in:

• PG 65
• Stalag 344

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ACA 1941. With Gerard Van de Linde & Son, EC3 in 1955. Articled with N.A. Wiseman of Gerard van de Linde & Sons. Intermediate Examination passed in May 1939. Final Examination passed in August 1941.

Attended the President's reception in June 1945

No. 1069568 Warrant Officer Ernest Bailey POPE. 419 Squadron Royal Canadian Air Force, Bomber Command

Born: 14 July 1914

Date of enlistment: 15 March 1941

Place and date of capture: Roemond (Holland). 24 June 1943

Main camps or hospitals in which imprisoned:

• Stalag Luft VI
• Stalg 357
• Stalag 357

Sat Final examination at Stalag Luft VI in October 1944

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Articled with: ?. Passed Preliminary Examination in November 1934 (King's School, Chester)

Pope does not seem to have become a member of the ICAEW.

Note: The National Archives has a record of the crash of Pope's Handley Page Halifax II JD147

 

No. 62111, Captain John POYNTON. Royal Horse Artillery/ Royal Artillery

Date of birth: 14 January 1910

Date of Enlistment: 3 January 1934

Place and date of capture: Tobruck, North Africa, 14 September 1942

Main camps held in:

• PG 75 (23 Sep 1942 - 23 Jan 1943)
• PG 17 (24 Jan 1943 - April 1943)
• PG 49 (April 1943 - 9 Sep 1943)
• Asti-Alessandria-Mantua (after recapture) 24 Apr 1944
• Stalag VII-A (12 May 1944 - 22 Aug 1944)
• Oflag 79 (25 Aug 1944 - 12 April 1945)

Did you suffer from any illnesses while a PoW:

• Jaundice 3 weeks
• malnutrition, much of the time
• Jaundice and neuralgia when an escaped prisoner)

Interrogation after capture: 

First capture at Tobruk, normal an recapture in Italy,  special interrogation at Asti, Italy.

Escapes attempted:

During captivity obtained maps, compass, made plans, saved scarps of food, studied Italian language. (See image for further details)

Sabotage:

During escape, cutting wires, personal propaganda association with patriots in Italy.

Have you any other matters you wish to bring to notice:

When interrogated by Fascists at Asti on 26 April 1945 they complimented me on my endeavours and invited me to work for them. I refused and my subsequent poor poor treatment as has been the subject of a P.O.W. complaint to the Protecting Power.

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ACA 1937. Cooper Brothers & Co., Liverpool in 1940. Poynton & Co, Southport 1955. Articled with C. McCaig of Poulsom & Co., Southport. Passed Intermediate Examination in May 1932.  Final Examination passed in May or June 1937.

No.6090516 Lance Corporal Howard Maurice George PRYOR. 2/5th Bn.Queen’s Royal Regiment. 

Date of birth: 23 November 1918

Date of enlistment: March 1939 (territorial unit)

Place and date of capture: Outside Abbeville, France. 21 May 1940. 

Main camps or hospitals in which imprisoned:

• Stalag XX-A  June 1940 - January 1945

Were you in a working camp?:

• Schwetz (Oct 1940 - May 1941) constructing barracks
• Kikol (Dec 1941 - May 1942) road construction
• Tpolno, Ebensee, Plangenau (May 1942 - 22 January 1945) farming

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ACA 1948. Millbank, SW1 in 1955. Articled to N. Bell, Richard H. Neinei & Co., EC2. Final Examination passed in November 1947. 

Attended the President's reception in June 1945

No. 105217 Acting Captain Harold Lesley PUMFRETT. Royal Army Service Corps.  

Place and date of capture: France 1940

Main camps or hospitals in which imprisoned:

• Oflag IX-A/H
• Oflag  VII-B

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ACA 1935. Hampstead NW3 in 1955. Articled with H.A. Deed, London. Passed Intermediate Examination in November 1932. Final Examination passed in May 1935,

Attended the President's reception in June 1945

No. 129151 Flight Lieutenant  James Campion PYNE. 10 Squadron, RAF Bomber Command. 

Date of birth: 1 December 1912

Date of enlistment: 20 May 1941

Place and date of capture: Near Kassell 23 October 1943

Were you wounded when captured: Yes

Main camps or hospitals in which imprisoned:

• Stalag Luft I (19/11/1943 - 1/5/1945)

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ACA 1935, FCA 1953. Dunn, Carey Campion Pyne & Co, WC2 in 1955. Articled with Selwyn Jacobs of C. Hayter & Co, W1. Final Examination passed in May 1935.

Attended the President's reception in June 1945

Note: The National Archives has a report on the crash of Pyne's Handley page Halifax II HX174

No. 108526 Flight Lieutenant Arthur Noe QUAILE. 419 Squadron RCAF. RAF Bomber Command.

Date of birth: 19 December 1915

Date of enlistment: 10 September 1939

Place and date of capture: Notre Dame St Claney, France. 16 September 1943

Were you wounded when captured: Dislocated shoulder, broken finger

Main camps or hospitals in which imprisoned:

• Stalag Luft III Sagan (1/10/1943 - 21/1/1945)
• Stalag Luft III Tarmstedt (6/2/1945 - 10/4/1945)
• Stalag Luft III Lubeck (24/4/1945)

Interrogation: Feld Gendamarie interrogation at Lisieux Gestapo HQ. Threats of shooting.

Escape attempts: Lisieux prison, was caught in courtyard after cutting way through window bars. No companions.

Was unsuccessful in Final examination in January 1945 at Stalag Luft III.

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Articled with G.M Harvey of Birkenhead. Passed the Preliminary Examination in May 1932 (private tuition). Passed the Intermediate Examination in May or June 1937. Passed the Final Examination in May 1948.

ACA 1948. With N.J. Kissock, Smith & Co, Birkenhead in 1955.

Note: Details of the crash of Quaile's Halifax II LW240

Lieutenant Henry Thomas Cleary REID. Royal Army Ordnance Corps

Place and date of capture: France, 1940

Main camps held at:

• Oflag VI-B
• Oflag VII-B

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ACA 1936; FCA 1950. Deakin, Hale & Co. EC2 in 1940; Deakin, Hale, Reid & Co, EC2 in 1955. Articled with P.D. Dale, London. Passed Final Examination in May 1936.

No. 1181872 Warrant Officer Stanley Henry ROBINSON. 76 Squadron RAF Bomber Command

Date of birth: 27 January 1920

Date of enlistment: 20 July 1940

Place and date of capture: Heraklion, Crete. 5 September 1942.

Where you wounded when captured?: Yes

Main camps of hospitals held in: 

• Hospital - Candia (6/9/1942 - 3/10/1942)
• Hospital - Hohenmark (Frankfurt) (5/10/1942 - 3/11/1942)
• Hospital - Obermassfeld (Stalag IX-C) (4/11/1942 - 6/2/1943)
• Dulag Luft - Kloster Haina (Oflag IX-A/H) (7/2/1942 - 14/3/1943)
• Stalag VIII-B/344 (20/3/1943 - 21/1/1945)

Interrogation: Hospital Crete / Hospital Dulag Luft - solitary 5 weeks

Escapes attempted: 

• 27/1/1945 broke off march 4/2/1945 recaptured
• 3/3/1945 Czechoslovakia

Unfit, malnutrition

First escape: I went with W/O Farrell and was housed by Poles in a small village by the town of STRENLIN we were picked(?) after a week by returning German civilians. We were marched in Czecho where I escaped with a Private Gee and I was housed by various people. Two in particular by the names of .... and ..... The former I stayed a month. Latter two weeks. 

Passed SIAA Intermediate Examination in July 1943

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Articled with Brown, Peet & Tilly. B.Com., SIAA Associate 1948. Taxation Accountant, Registered Offices Ltd. EC2 in 1955.

No. 350195 Major William ROSE. General list

• PG H29 giving lectures

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ACA 1929; Denton & Sons, Liverpool in 1940; Director & secretary, William Thornton & Sons, Liverpool in 1955.

No. 1388639 Flight Officer Eric Victor SANDERS D.F.C., 692 Squadron, RAF Bomber Command

Date of birth: 28 June 1923

Date of enlistment: 13 October 1941

Place and date captured: Witttstock, Berlin. 8/7/1944

Main camps or hospitals held in:

• ? Witttstock 8/7/1944 - 9/7/1944
• ? Berlin 9/7/44 - 10/7/1944
• Dulag Luft nr Frankfurt 11/7/1944 - 17/7/1944
• Transit camp, Wetzlar 16/7/1944 - 17/7/1944
• Stalag Luft I Barth 19/7/1944 - 1/5/1945

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ACA 1950. Watson, Colin & Co. SW1 and St Albans in 1955. Articled with J.S. Muir of Watson, Collin & Co., WC1. Final examination passed in May 1950.

Note: More details of the crash of Sander's Mosquito XVI MM147

No. 73933 Lieutenant Sidney James SAUNDERS. 1st Bn. Kings Royal Rifle Corps (Queen Victoria's Rifles)

Date and place of capture: France, 23/5/1940

Main camps held at:

• Oflag VI-B
• Oflag VII-B

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ACA 1934. FCA 1954. Accountancy Department, The Law Society WC2 in 1940 .Chancery Lane WC2 in 1955. Articled with A.G. White of White, Salomon & Co., EC2. Passed Final Examination in May 1934.

Attended the President's reception in June 1945

 

Unsuccessful in an examination July 1943, Stalag Luft III

We have been unable to identify this Prisoner of War

Took the Intermediate Examination in January 1943 at Oflag VI-B

We have been unable to identify this Prisoner of War

Captain John William SIMPSON

• Oflag 79

There are too many J. W. Simpsons in the Army List to determine which one this is

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There are 2 John William Simpsons in the 1955 List of members

• B.A., ACA 1930, Basingstoke in 1940 and 1955 (Not in practice)
• ACA 1934. Imperial Chemicals Industries (India) Ltd , Madras, India in 1940; Director of Imperial Chemical Industries (Pakistan) Ltd, Karachi, Pakistan in 1955.

No. 158730 Lieutenant George Ernest Marcel SMITH, 2nd Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Hong Kong and Singapore Royal Artillery

Date of birth: 23 July 1914 

Place and date of capture: Singapore. 9 March 1942

Died while a prisoner of war,  5 March 1943. Believed to have been buried in a mass grave on Ballale Island (Solomon Islands).

Commemorated on the Singapore Memorial 

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ACA 1939. Not in practice, Coventry in 1940. Articled with T.W. Daffern of Daffern & Co., Coventry. Passed Intermediate Examination in May 1935. Passed Final Examination in May 1939.

No. 149663 Captain David SOLOMONS. Royal Army Service Corps. 

Place captured: Cyrenaica, Libya

Main camps held in:

• PG 75
• Oflag VIII-F
• Oflag 79

Camp Education Committee Oflag VIII-F 

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B.Com. ACA 1937. With Laurence Robson & Co, WC2 in 1940; Reader in Accounting, University of London, London School of Economics in 1955. Articled with Claude Fairhead of Jackson, Fairhead & Co., WC1. Passed Intermediate Examination in May 1935. Passed Final Examination in November 1936.

Attended the President's reception in June 1945.

No. 243119 Lieutenant George Rose-Innes Masters STOKES D.F.C., The Glider Pilot Regiment, Army Air Corps. 1st Airborne Division.

Place and date of capture: Arnhem, September 1944 (severely wounded)

Main camps held in:

• Oflag IX-A/H

Later promoted to Captain and served in Palestine in 1948. Transferred to the RAFVR (Pilot Officer, General duties branch) in 1949

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ACA 1949. With Deloitte, Plender, Griffiths & Co, EC2 in 1955. Articled with Holcombe Read, EC3. Passed final examination in November 1946, after being repatriated from his PoW camp but while still serving overseas in the Army (Middle Eastern Force).

2nd Lieutenant G.A.S. TERRY

Believed to have been in an Italian Prisoner of war camp.

We have been unable to identify this Prisoner of War

No. 156995 2nd. Lieutenant George Edgar TRANMAR. 2nd Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Hong Kong Singapore Royal Artillery

Date of Birth: 27 December 1917

Place of Birth: Brazil (or Buenos Aries, Argentina)

Date and place of capture: 15 February 1942, Singapore.

Died while a prisoner of war, 22 November 1942 (died of diptheria, Thailand-Burma railway camps)

Buried or commemorated at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery

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Articled with B. Manning of Gundry, Cole & Co. EC2. Passed Intermediate Examination in May 1939. Passed Preliminary Examination in May 1934 (Stoneyhurst College)

No. 101563 Flight Lieutenant Norman Frank TRAYLER. 76 Squadron, RAF Bomber Command.

Date of birth: 22/8/1920

Date of enlistment: 28/7/1920

Place and date captured: North Holland near Harlingen. 12 October 1941

Main camps held in:

• Dulag Luft nr Frankfurst m (15/10/1941 - 3/11/1941)
• Stag Luft I (6/11/1941 - 21/3/1942)
• Stalag Luft III (East) (22/3/1942 - 28/3/1942)
• Stalag Luft III (West) (28/3/1943 - 28/1/1945)
• Marlag O (4/2/1945 - 10/4/1945) 

Interrogation: usual form. Amsterdam public jail 13-15 October 1941

Escape attempts:

1. attempted escape by tunnel - Barth, opened Dec-Jan 1941/2 
2. attempted escape by tunnel - Sagan - spread over period of captivity there - all unsuccessful

Passed Intermediate Examination in 1943 at Stalag Luft III

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ACA 1947. Working in practice, Bognor Regis 1950 & 1955; Articled with T.W. Bowyer, of T.W. Bowyer & Co., Basingstoke. Final Examination passed in May 1947.

Notes: The National Archives has details of the crash of Trayler's aircraft Handley-Page Halifax L9561

No. 929706 Warrant Officer Peter Edward TRIPP. 51 Squadron, RAF Bomber Command

Date of birth: 3 August 1921

Date of enlistment: August 1940

Date and place of capture: 6 August 1941, Eindhoven, Netherlands

Main camps held in:

• Stalag III-E (Aug 1941 - May 1942)
• Stalag Luft III (May 1942 - June 1943)
• Stalag Luft IV (June 1943 - July 1944)
• Stalag 357 (July 1944 - Aug 1944)
• Stalag 357 (May 1944- April 1945)

Examinations passed while a PoW: Intermediate Certified and corporate; Intermediate Chartered Institute of Secretaries; Oxford Commercial Diploma?

Sat the Intermediate Examination in August 1943

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We can not find that Tripp every became a member of the ICAEW. Articled with ?

Note: The National Archives has details of the crash of Tripp's Armstrong Whitworth Whitley V Z6488

We have been unable to identity this Prisoner of War but believe they were originally held in an Italian Camp.

No. 126057 Lieutenant Laurence WATERHOUSE. 6th Bn. Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment. 12 Division B.E.F.

Date of birth: 12 August 1908

Date of enlistment: May 1939 (T.A.)

Date and place of capture: Frugges, France

Main camps held at:

• Stalag II-A Neu Brandenburg
• Oflag VII-c Laufen
• Offlag Vi-B Dossel Bie Warburg
• Offlag-VII-B Eichstaat
• Stalag VII-A Moosburg

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BA, ACA 1933. With Price, Waterhouse & Co, EC2 in 1940; Deputy Secretary, South Western Regional Hospital Board, Plymouth in 1955. Articled with J.M.S Coates of Price Waterhouse & Co., Newcastle. Passed Final Examination in May 1933.

Attended the President's reception in June 1945

Lieutenant William James Alexander WEIR, RNVR, HM Steam Gunboat 7. Mentioned in despatches

Date of birth: 5 March 1917

Date of enlistment: 1 August 1940

Date and place of capture: 18 June 1942, English Channel off Cherbourg

• Dulag Nord, Wilhelmshaven 29/06/1942 - 10/07/1942
• Marlag und Milag Nord (Marlag 'O') 10/07/1942 - 12/04/1945
• Bad Schwartau, Lubeck 23/04/1945 - 03/05/1945

Interrogation after capture:

Interrogated twice at Dulag Nord, regarding details of the battle in which my ship was involved. No special attempts were made to elicit information that I was unwilling to give.

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ACA 1939. Articled with Arthur Heyward Hillyer, of Hill, Vellacott & Co., EC2. Passed Final Examination in November 1938.
With Hill, Vellacott & Co, EC2 in 1940; Assistant Accountant, The Associated Portland Cement Manufacturers Ltd, SW1 in 1955. later Group Chief Accountant, Associated Portland Cement Manufacturers Ltd until his retirement.

Attended the President's reception in June 1945

No.150046 Lieutenant Quartermaster Kenneth William Dampier WELFORD. 35th Light Anti Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery

Date of birth: 8 June 1914

Date and Place of capture: 15 February 1942, Singapore 

Died while a prisoner of war, 21 January 1943. Died of dysentery, bacillary and haemorrhage.

Commemorated on the Singapore memorial

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ACA 1937. With Davies, Son & Simmonds, EC2 in 1940. Articled with E.D. Davies of Davies, Son & Simmonds EC2 and EC3. Passed Intermediate Examination in May 1934. Passed Final Examination in May or June 1937.

No. 2304 Lieutenant Colonel Leslie Carl WENDT. D.S.O. 2nd Bn. Royal Durban Light Infantry. South African Forces.

Place and date captured: Tobruk,1941

Main camps held in:

• PG 47
• Oflag XII-B

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ACA 1920, ACA 1949. With Crockett, Wendt & Fletcher, Durban, Natal in 1939 and 1955.

Captain Douglas Harold WHINNEY. 4th Battalion, Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

Date of birth: 28 August 1902

Date of enlistment: March 1924

Dare and place of capture: 30 May 1924, Watou, Belgium

Man camps held at:

• Oflag VII-C (June-Oct 1941)
• Oflag VI-B (Oct 41-Sep 42)
• Oflag VII-B (Sep 42- Sep 45)
• Stalag 383 (Sep 44-Dec 44)
• Stalag VIIA (Apr 45 - May 45)

Did you suffer from any illness: Diptheria, 6 weeks

Acted as a accountancy tutor while a Prisoner of War.

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BA , MA, ACA 1930, FCA 1936. With Whinney, Smith & Whinney and Whinney, Smethurst & Co, EC2 in 1940; Whinney, Smith & Whinney EC2; Whinney, Murray & Co., Whinney, Murray & Baguley in other locations, 1955.

• Read more about Whinney

No. 1092158 Gunner Alan Cleaver Wesley. 97th (The Kent Yeomanry) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery.

Place of birth: Northamptonshire

Place of capture: Western Desert, 26 October 1942

Main camps held in:

• PG 102

Died while a prisoner of war, 14 November 1942

Commemorated at the Alamein Memorial, Egypt

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ACA 1936. With Price, Waterhouse, Peat & Co, Lima, Peru in 1940. Articled with R.D. Owen of Ralph D. Owen & Co, , Bath. Passed Intermediate Examination in May 1933. Passed Final Examination in November 1935.

No. 916483 Gunner John Philip WHITEHEAD, 121st Field Regiment, Royal Artillery. 8th Indian Division

Date of birth: 7 March 1920

Date of enlistment: 5 May 1939 (TA)

Date and place of capture: 29 June 1942. Mersa Matruh, Egypt

Main camps held in:

• PG 70, Monte 16/08/1942 - 09/1943
• Stalag IV-A 16/10/1943 - 02/1943
• Stalag IV-B, 02/1945 - 05/1945

Were you in a work camp:

• Barenstein - building
• Smiedeberg - building

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ACA 1948. With Armitage & Norton, Leeds in 1955. Articled with H. Brook, Leeds. Passed Final Examination in May 1948

No. 60317 Flight Lieutenant Derek Lister D'Anyers WILLIS. 37 Squadron, RAF Bomber Command

Date of birth: 14/11/1914

Date of enlistment: not given

Captured: 18/3/1941, Nr Tirana, Albania

Main camps held in:

• Fier, Albania 20/3/1941 - 6/4/1941
• PG 78, Sumonia, Italy 8/4/1941 - 30/6/1942
• PG 35, Padula, Italy 1/7/1942 - 11/18/1942
• PG 19, Bologna, Italy 15/8/1942 - 10/9/1943
• Stalag Luft III Sagan 1/11/1943 - 26/1/1945
• Marlag & Milag Nord, Tarmstedt 2/21945 -10/4/1945

Interrogation:

Yes, at Italian air force HQ in Tirana, Albania, 19 March 1941.No forceful methods, content with no information.

Escape attempts:

1.  Took part tunnel digging at Sulmonia, tunnel abortive August 1941
2. Superintended two tunnels at Padula while a member of escape committee, October 1942 to August 1943, both abortive
3. Attempted to escape from Bologna, Sept 8 1943 by hiding above Italian officers quarters, with Captain G.H.K Rae and Lt G. Calambokides - betrayed 2nd day by Italians.

Final examination (January 1944) at Stag Luft III.

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BA,. ACA  1945. With Barton, Mayhew & Co in 1950; Lazard Bros & Co. Ltd. EC2 in 1955 . Articled with G.D.F. Dillon of Barton, Mayhew & Co, EC2. Passed Intermediate Examination in May 1938.

Attended the President's reception in June 1945

Note: The National Archives has details of the crash of Willis's Vickers Wellington IC R1387

• Read more about Willis's story

No. 86912 Lieutenant Norman WILSON, 6th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery

Date of birth: April 1916

Place of birth: Tynemouth, Northumberland

Date of capture: 15 February 1942, Singapore

Drowned while a prisoner of war, on or around 5 March 1943,Belived to be buried in mass grave on Ballale Island (Solomon Islands)

Commemorated on the Singapore memorial

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ACA 1939. With Joseph, Miller & Co, Newcastle in 1940. Articled with J. Taylor of Joseph Miller & Co., Newcastle. Passed Final Examination in November 1938,

No. 117595 Lieutenant Christopher Tansley WITT. 2nd Lothian & Border Horse, Royal Armoured Corps

Date of birth: 18/2/1920
Place of Birth: Hemel Hempstead

Captured:

Main camps held in:

• Offlag VII-C
• Offlag VII-B

Intermediate Examination taken at Oflag VI-B in January 1943.

Final examination unsuccessful in August 1944

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Articled to  ?

We can find no record of Witt passing the Final examination and becoming an ACA, despite being a member of the Tansley Witt accountancy family.

Attended the President's reception in June 1945

No. 129457 Lieutenant Michael George WITTET. The Royal Scots (Royal Regiment)

Date of birth: 9/9/1918
Place of birth: Bombay, India

Captured: 8 April 1940, Forges, France

Main camps held in:

• Oflag VI-C

Passed Final examination in January 1943 at Oflag VI-B. 

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ACA 1945. With Whinney, Murray & Co, Haifa Palestine in 1947 and Beirut, Lebanon in 1950; Graham, Smart & Annan in Edinburgh in 1955.  Articled with D.C Wilson of W.A. Browne & Co, EC2. Intermediate examination passed in May 1939. Preliminary Examination passed in May 1936 (Mill Hill School).

Attended the President's reception in June 1945

Notes: Wittet was a member of the Chartered Accountants Rugby Football Club  firsts in 1938/1939

On returning from working in the Middle East, Wittet joined the firm of his PoW Camp mentor David Bogie (q,v.) in Edinburgh.

No. 140639 Lieutenant Philip WHIFFEN, East Surrey Regiment

Born: 1919

Captured in North Africa in 1942. Was wounded. Repatriated in 1944. 1945 Gazette entry states ‘resigns his commission on account of disability'.

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We have not found any record of Whiffen becoming a member. Articled with ?.

Attended the President's reception in June 1945

Gunner

Believed to have ben held in a Italian camp.

We have been unable to identify this Prisoner of War

No. 71829 Lieutenant John Hodgson WIILMAN 1/8th Battalion, The Lancashire Fusiliers, 2nd Division

Date of birth: 23 January 1919

Date of enlistment: 16 May 1937

Place and date of capture: 27 March 1940, Bethune, France

Wounded when captured: Yes

Main camps held in:

• Offlag VII-C (6 June 1940 - 13 Oct 1941)
• OfflagVI-B (14 Oct 1941 - 13 Sept 1942)
• Oflag VII-B (13 Sep 1942 - 14 April 1945)
• Stalag VII-A (15 April 1945 - 24 April 1945)

Escape attempts:

On march from Eichstaat  to Moosberg, left column at night. Free 17 hours, captured by troops who camped all around our hiding place. One companion, Capt. Ian Latta. Both recaptured. Date 14/1/1945. 

Passed Final Examination in January 1943 in Oflag VI-B.

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Articled with ?

We can find no record of Wilman becoming an ACA.

Company Quartermaster Sergeant Bernard Samuel WOODMAN, 6016376 2/5th Bn. The Essex Regiment. 8th Indian Infantry Division.

Date of birth: 16 January 1914

Date of enlistment: 27 April 1939 (TA)

Date and place of capture: 1 July 1942, El Alamein, Egypt

Main camps held in:

• Benghazi
• PG 51, Altamura
• PG 70, Monturano
• Stalag IV-B Muhlburg

Sat an exam – London University Inter B. Commerce, Dec 1944.

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ACA 1935. Not in practice, Manningtree, Essex in 1940. Secretary and accountant, C.H. Chaston & Co. Ltd., Clacton in 1955. Articled with C.L Fielden of Bland, Fielden & Co, Colchester. Passed Intermediate Examination in November 1932.

Attended the President's reception in June 1945

Died in 1994, aged 80.

Lieutenant Robert Pomfret WYLDE, 210770. 2nd Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers. 78th Division.

Date of birth: 6 October 1918

Date of Enlistment: 20 October 1939

Place and date of capture: Medjez-El-Bab. 25 November 1942.  

Main camps held in:

• PG 66, Capua 28/12/1942 - 17/12/1943
• PG21, Chieti 18/3/1943 - 21/09/1943
• Oflag VIII-F, Marish Trabau 19/12/1943 - 01/05/1944
• Oflag 79, Braunschweig 04/05/1944 - 23/04/1945

Unsuccessful in final examination August 1944

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ACA 1946. Accountant with The Anglo-Iranian Oil Company in 1955 .Articled to R.W. Cox of Blyth & Co, Nottinghamshire. Passed final examination in November 1945. Intermediate Examination passed in May 1938. Preliminary Examination passed in May 1935 (Nottingham High School)

Attended the President's reception in June 1945

Many overseas servicemen from the British Empire were able to sit ICAEW papers, as papers from their own institutes were not available.

Australian

• Gliddon, Bbd. John William Ross.
• Terry, Fl Lt. Ronald Frederich. Royal Canadian Air Force, Bomber Command

New Zealand

• Andrews, Lt. A.E. (Final, 1945)
• Baskin, Sgt. B.H.
• Brewster, Cpt. P.J. (Final, 1945)
• Brown, Cpl. A.K.
• Edgell, Sgt. E. 32922
• Fenton, Francis Tenant (Stalag 383, 1944. A lawyer)
• Hay, Lindsay 33368 (Stalag VIII-A, Nov 1944)
• Heilford, H.R.
• Jack, Cpt. J.R.G. (Final, 1945)
• Johnston, Cpl. W.F. - Stalag 383 1944
• Kinder, Gnr. Revell S or J. (Stalag VIII-A, Nov 1944)
• Lee, L.D.
• Llloyd, J.E.
• McKenzie, J.B.
• McLean, C.W.
• McLeod, Cpt. N.J. (Final, 1945)
• McLernon, Lt. Samuel Muir (Final, 1945)
• Mandeno, A.H. (August 1943)
• Polson, S/Sgt L.A.
• Rendall, A.C.
• Rowland, Pt. Leslie Howard (Oflag IX-B)
• Spry, Cpl A.L.
• Tillick, A.J.
• Wilson, Cpl W.W.P. (Stalag 383, 1944) 

South Africa

• Hunter, Bdr. John B. (Stalag VII-A, Nov 1944)

A number of names in the records are marked 'No trace' which we have taken to mean that have applied to take ICAEW examinations but the institute could not find record of them being registered as articled clerks and were therefore not eligible to take the exams..

• Bell, D.R. Stalag VIII-P (South African)
• Chamlet, Thomas James. Stalag VIII-P (Fellow of Institute of Bookkeeping)
• Goyden, J.M. Stalag XX-A
• Haines, G.E. 
• Lipp, I.D. Stalag XX-B (apprentice Chartered Accountant - Scottish)
• Prior, M,. Stalag XX-A
• Vincent, L.J. Stalag XX-A

There was also a suggestion that members, who were Prisoners of War, could take other PoWs as articled clerks in the camp, although this was never taken up. The suggestion came up in the case of Stoker G.E. Haines of the Merchant Navy.

German camps: A Dalag is a transit camp (Durchgangslager), Luft indicates it being for airmen. Oflag is a camp for officers (Offizierslager), Stalag (Stammlager) is the main camp (usually for enlisted men), Marlag (Marinelager) is a navy camp and Milag (Marineinterniertenlager) held members of the Merchant Navy.
There are also different types of work camp GW (gewerbliche Wirtschaft - trade or industry, L ((Landwirtschaft -agricultural) and HV (Heeresverwaltung

• Dulag Luft (Oberusel)
• Marlag und Milag Nord
• Oflag III-C Hohenfels (later Stalag 383) 
• Oflag IV-C Colditz
• Oflag V-A Weinsburg
• Oflag V-B Biberach
• Oflag VI-B Dossel / Warburgh 
• Offlag VII-A Murnau
• Oflag VII-B Eichstaat
• Oflag VII-C Laufen
• Oflag VII-D Tittmoning
• Oflag VIII-F, Wahlstatt and later Mahrisch-Trubau
  
• Oflag IX-A/Z Rotenburg an der Fulda
• Oflag IX/A-H Spangenburg
• Oflag XVII-A Edelbach
• Oflag XXI-B Schubin
• Oflag 79 Braunschweig/Brunswick
• Stalag II-A Neubrandenburg (later Oflag II-E, Oflag 67)
• Stalag III-A Luckenwakde
• Stalag III-E Kirchhain
• Stalag IV-A Elsterhorst
• Stalag IV-B  Mühlberg
• Stalag IV-C Bystřice
• Stalag IV-D/Z Torgau
• Stalag IV-G Oshatz
• Stalag V-A Ludwigsburg
• Stalag V-C Fort Bismark
• Stalag VI-B Doessel / Warburg
• Stalag VI-J  Fichtenheim
• Stalag VII-A Moosburg
• Stalag VIII-B Lamsdorf aka Stalag 344
• Stalag XI-B Fallingsbostel aka Stalag 357
• Stalag XVIII-A Wolfsberg
• Stalag XVIII-C Markt Pongau aka Stalag 317
• Stalag XVIII-C Maribor (Yugoslavia) aka Stalag 306
• Stalag XX-A Toruń 
• Stalag XXI-D Posen
• Stalag Luft I Barth
• Stalag Luft III Sagan
• Stalag Luft IV Groß Tychow 
• Stalag Luft VI Heydegruk
• Terezin Concentration camp / Terezin Small Fortress

Italian camps, were known as Prigione di Guerra, denoted by the initials PG. They could be transit camps, hospitals, officer or work camps:

• PG 5 Gavi
• PG 17 Rezzanella
• PG 19 Bologna
• PG 21 Chieti
• PG 29 Veano
• PG 35 Padula
• PG 49 Fontanellato
• PG 51 Altamura Villa
• PG 53 Sforzacosta
• PG 65 Pian de Coreglia
• PG 66 Capua
• PG 70 Monteurano
• PG 75 Torre Tresca
• PG 78 Sulmona
• PG 102  Aquila
• PG 206 Nocera

Japanese Camps. It is not easy to identify which camps individuals were held at from the records available to us. However we do know that several men in our list where held in camps that were part of the Burma -Thailand Railway.

• List of Japanese-run internment camps during WWII
• Allied prisoners of war of Japan

 

The following sources were used to research the lives of the articled clerks/chartered accountants:

• The ICAEW Members lists (mainly 1947, the first edition printed since 1940, but also other editions)
• The WW2 Roll of honour for those who died as a PoW
• The Accountant for reports of the examination takers, releases from captivity and obituaries.
• Papers related to the ICAEW and the Red Cross /St Johns Ambulance exam scheme at the London Archive
• National Archives series WO 416: War Office: German Record cards of British and Commonwealth Prisoners of War and some Civilian Internees, Second World War
• National Archives series WO 208/5443 Special questionnaire for British and American ex-prisoners of war
• National Archives series AIR 81 P4 (Cas) Files relating to casualties suffered during air operations and aircraft accidents 1939-1945
• 1939 Special Register and 1921 census