| Surname: | Smales |
| Initials: | F |
| Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Army Number: | 821247 |
| Notes: | CMP. POW. Enlisted in the Royal Artillery (field, coast & AA), transferred to CMP. 51 (H) Div Pro Coy. Captured at St. Valery, France with BEF 1940. 27/3/46 to discharge. Casualty List 276/23. BEF, France, Missing, 6/6/40. Casualty List 323/18. BEF, France, POW previously reported as missing, previously shown on list 276 as missing. POW, Stalag XXA, Torun, Poland. Casualty List 1742/22, previously reported POW in German hands not now POW, previous List 323, France. 27/3/46 Discharged. 5/2/49 He was awarded the 1939-1945 Star, War Medal. Address:- 28 Chamberlain Road, Heyrod, Stalybridge. Cheshire. Fred Smales. Extract from the Hull Daily Mail, 29/8/40. News has been received that L/Cpl F Smales of the Highland Division of the Corps of Military Police is a prisoner of war at a Stalag, Germany. He was reported missing on August 15. |
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| Imprisonment: | Stalag XX A POLAND 🇵🇱 |