Spink Reginald William

NAME Spink Reginald William
RANK IN GREECE

Sergeant

ON DEMOB

 

SERIAL NUMBER SERVICE

256693

 

PRISONER

21132

 

UNIT IN GREECE

Royal Corps of Signals and H Squadron, GHQ Liaison Phantom regiment

 

ACTIVE

 

IN GREECE

5 January 1941 to 26 April 1941.

 

METHOD OF DEPARTURE

 

Captured 26 April 1941 defending the Corinth Canal.
POW CAMPS

 

IN GREECE

N/A

 

IN OCCUPIED EUROPE

Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf

Stalag 383 Hohenfels

 

NOTES

Source: Judy Humby his niece

Born: 1 July 1908 Leeds

Died: 6 September 2000 Southampton

Repatriated: 8 May 1945.

In ‘Last on the List’  by Miles Reid he is described as a ‘veritable wireless genius’.

In ‘Barbed Wire: Memories of Stalag 383’ by M. McKinnon, in the chapter called ‘Griff and Hooch’ there are numerous references to him being the hut radio operator.

STORY

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