| Surname: | Ousley |
| Initials: | H |
| Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Army Number: | 790537 |
| Notes: | CMP- RA, Questionnaire for Ex-POW, MI9/Gen/MI5-X. 70400. 790537, L/cpl, Oulsey, Harold, CMP, 51 Highland Div Pro Coy, born 7/8/05, enlisted 25/1/29, occupation Labourer, address: 9 Hawthorn Street, Derby, captured St Valerie, France 12/6/40, not wounded when captured, main POW camps: Stalag XXa, Thorn, 7/40 to 2/45, Stalag 2c, Greifswald, 2/45 to 4/45, Stalag Luft I, Barth, 4/45 to May 45, working camps: Stalag XXa, 8/40 to 12/40 construction, Lobsens, 4/41 to 12/42, road work, Gravdenz, 12/42 to 1/45, building, did you suffer serious illness whilst a POW: pneumonia, exposure, 10/43 to 12/43, did you receive medical treatment? Yes Good. WWII RA Tracer Card:- 790537, Ousley, Harold, 51 Heavy Regt, RA, release 468/46 class Z reserve, discharge over age 1954, missing, POW 2/9/40, A32/45, Y List 12/5/45, A32/45, Cancelled by A84.45, A5/45 Y list 12/5/45, A130/45, Y List, POW, 10/2/45 att 4 CRU, 11/10/45, 12/10/45, release 312/45, Y Release 8/11/45. Listed in British POW 39 - 45 as Stalag 20A, pow no,. 17600, Ousley H, Gnr, 790537, RA. Casualty List 285. BEF, France, Missing, Royal Artillery, 51 Heavy Battery, TA date not reported. Casualty List 307. BEF, France, POW (previously reported missing, 51 Heavy Battery RA. Presumed to have been attached to 51 Highland Div Pro Coy at time of capture, no other mention of service with CMP except in POW Questionnaire. Harold Ousley. |