| Surname: | Lake |
| Initials: | H J |
| Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Army Number: | 7687576 |
| Notes: | CMP. Enlisted in CMP. 6/1/45 discharged medically unfit. Casualty List 561/6, Missing, Crete, 2/6/1941. Casualty List 600/8, Crete, POW previously reported missing on List 561. POW Stalag 383, Hohenfels, Rhineland Palatinate. Casualty List 1067, corrections, List 600, Crete, POW previously reported Missing on List 561 as missing, 2/6/41. Casualty List 1067/2, List 600. Crete, POW previously reported missing, previously reported on list 561 as missing 2/6/41, rank A/L/Cpl. Casualty List 1785, POW, previously reported POW in German hands (Germany) now not POW. previous List 600 corrected by List 1067, Crete. 24/2/50 He was awarded the 1939 - 1945 Star, Africa Star, War Medal. Address:- 250 Halley Road, Manor Park, London E 12. Info from tracer card, corps museum; Middle East 15/11/1940. Missing 2/6/1941, now located POW 8/7/1941. Repatriated and posted to Y List 8/5/1945. 19/9/1945 to Y list discharged para 390 (xvi) KR 1946. Initials K J in POW 1939-1945. General Questionnaire for British POW. MI9/Gen/MIS-X. 94401. 7687576, L/Cpl, Lake, Henry John, captured, Crete 1/6/41, 2 Armd Div Pro Coy, CMP, were you wounded when captured ? No. born 21/9/14, enlisted 4/5/40, occupation Hot water fitter also began part time service and 9 months full time service with Metropolitan Special Constabulary. Address: 71 Hazelwood Road, Walthamstowe, London E 17. Main POW Camps:- Stalag VIIA, Moosburg, Germany from 8/41 to 10/43, Stalag 383, Hohenfels, Germany, from 10/43 to 22/4/42. Sabotage:- Yes, from 9/41 till 8/42 I worked in the camp Shoemakers with another Englishman, committed our daily share to the machinery and material of the Germans, also a little in Salonika. Henry John Lake. |
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| Imprisonment: | Stalag 383 GERMANY 🇩🇪 |