Item
Name: Nissin Eskenazi. Date of Birth: 15/02/1919. Number of Cards: 0. 1 card moved...
Catalogue reference: WO 416/113/286
Date: [1939-1945]
1 card moved to WO 416/113/283.
Item
Name: John Charles Balkham. Date of Birth: 3 May 1914. Place of Birth: Christchurch,...
Catalogue reference: WO 416/16/304
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1939-1945]
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Name: John Charles Balkham.
Date of Birth:
3 May 1914 .Place of Birth: Christchurch, Sussex.
Service: British Army.
Rank: Private.
Regiment/Unit/Squadron: 2nd Battalion, The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment)
Service Number: 6285221.
Date of Capture:
29 May 1940 .Theatre of Capture: Steenwerck.
Camp Name/Number: Stalag VIIIB Teschen.
PoW number: 11809.
Date of Death:
[unspecified] .Number of Photographs: 1.
Number of Fingerprints: 1.
Number of X-rays: 0.
Number of Cards: 2.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- Open on Transfer
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- Open Document, Open Description
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WO 416
War Office: German Record cards of British and Commonwealth Prisoners of War and...
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Prisoners of War: Percy L BAKER - Leonard BALLANTYNE. (Described at item level)
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