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: Robert A Gillespie. Date of Birth: 28/11/1919. Place of Birth: Cheshire....
Catalogue reference: WO 416/139/42
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This record is about the Name: Robert A Gillespie. Date of Birth: 28/11/1919. Place of Birth: Cheshire.... dating from [1939-1945] in the series War Office: German Record cards of British and Commonwealth Prisoners of War and.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- WO 416/139/42
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1939-1945]
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Name: Robert A Gillespie.
Date of Birth:
28/11/1919 .Place of Birth: Cheshire.
Service: British Army.
Rank: Lance Sergeant.
Regiment/Unit/Squadron: The Cheshire Regiment.
Service Number: 4125571.
Date of Capture:
24 May 1940 .Theatre of Capture: Boulogne.
Camp Name/Number: Stalag XXIB Schubin.
PoW number: 2536.
Date of Death:
[unspecified] .Number of Photographs: 1.
Number of Fingerprints: 1.
Number of X-rays: 0.
Number of Cards: 0.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- Closed Until 2020
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Prisoners of War: Thomas GILLENDER - J GLASSBERG. (Described at item level)
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