Downs Francis E ‘Frank’

NAME Downs Francis Elliot ‘Frank’
RANK IN GREECE

Pvt (Medical Orderly)

ON DEMOB

Sgt

SERIAL NUMBER SERVICE

7359187

PRISONER

24282

UNIT IN GREECE

RAMC – 26 Br Gen Hosp, Kephissia, Athens

ACTIVE

 

IN GREECE

Nov 1940 – Sep/Oct 1941

METHOD OF DEPARTURE

 

Captured 28 April

PoW Medic in Kokkinia and other Athens PoW hospitals post capture, 5 months

POW CAMPS

 

IN GREECE

Dulag 183, Salonika

IN OCCUPIED EUROPE

Stalag 8B, Lamsdorf (repatriated* oct 1943)

NOTES

1 Source – family correspondence

2 In first official PoW repatriation back to UK (via Gothenburg, Sweden)

3 Posted to Egypt Apr ’45 – July ’46

4 Born 2-12-1918, Died 11-12-1996

STORY

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Frank Downs Pre Greece

Frank Downs Greek Campaign

Frank Downs Post Greece

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