| Surname: | Nelson-Stythe |
| Initials: | V R R |
| Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Army Number: | 7881395 |
| Notes: | CMP. POW. Enlisted Royal Tank Regiment, transferred to CMP. 17/12/45 to discharge. Casualty list 256/36, BEF, France, Missing 24/5/1940. Casualty List 317/28, BEF, France, previously reported on list 256 as missing now POW. POW Stalag 383, Hohenfels, Rhineland Palatinate. Casualty List 1281/16, Corrections, List 317, BEF, France, previously reported missing now POW, previously shown on list 256 missing 24/5/1940 rank A/Cpl. Medal card not found. Victor Reginald Robert Nelson-Stythe. Extract from the Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphis - Saturday, 26 May 1945. Calais Survivor Among recently returned prisoners of war is Corporal Victor Reginal Robert Nelson-Stythe, son of Mrs M E Nelson Stythe of 14, Suffolk Square, Cheltenham. He was one of a gallant band captured after bitter street-fighting in Calais when covering the Dunkirk evacuation. While in his prison camp Corpl. Nelson-Stythe took and examination in zoology and veterinary science. |
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| Imprisonment: | Stalag 383 GERMANY 🇩🇪 |