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Britain’s youngest prisoner of war: John Giles Hipkin
14-year-old cabin boy John Giles Hipkin became Britain's youngest Second World War prisoner of war in 1941 after he was captured at sea.
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Borstal Institutions: Registers.
Catalogue reference: HO 260
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- Borstal Institutions: Registers.
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Series not used; records in HO 247
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