Surname:	Smales
Initials:	F.
Rank:	Lance Corporal
Army No.:	821247
Notes:	CMP. POW. 51 Highland Division Pro Coy. Captured St Valery with BEF 1940. Enlisted in the Royal Artillery (field, coast & AA), transferred to CMP. Stalag XXA, Torun, Poland. Casualty List 1742, previously reported POW in German hands not now POW, previous List 323. 27/3/46 Discharged. 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.