| Surname: | Lightfoot |
| Initials: | D |
| Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Army Number: | 4612590 |
| Notes: | CMP. Enlisted in the Duke of Wellingtons Regiment, transferred to CMP. 10/6/46 Discharged, 20/3/48 re enlisted. War Diary 113 Pro Coy, WO169/6652. 1/6/42 L/Cpl Lightfoot and L/Cpl Cowan captured, Lighfoot escaped and rejoined unit, 4/6/42 Cowan found in Tobruk hospital, shock. David Lightfoot. Extract from the Newcastle Evening Chronicle, 22/7/42. Gosforth Prisoner Escaped Nazis. Mrs Evelyn Lightfoot, of 21 Bowden Terrace, South Gosforth has received a letter from her husband Corporal David Lightfoot, Corps of Military Police informing her of his successful escape after being taken prisoner by the Germans in the Middle East. |