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Re: Lt Col Marsh - CO at which POW Camp ??
« Reply #9 on: Friday 01 August 14 20:33 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Drew5233 on Friday 01 August 14 20:02 BST (UK)
These are the battalion war diaries - do you know what year he was captured?

WO 166/8767 2 King's Shropshire Light Infantry 1942 Feb.-Dec.
WO 166/12610 2 King's Shropshire Light Infantry 1943 Jan.-Dec.
WO 171/1325 2 King's Shropshire Light Infantry 1944 Jan.- Dec.
WO 171/5219 2 King's Shropshire Light Infantry 1945 Jan.-Sept.
WO 169/20062 2 King's Shropshire Light Infantry 1945 Oct.- Dec.
WO 169/23214 2 King's Shropshire Light Infantry 1946 Jan.- June
no idea as yet..

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Re: Lt Col Marsh - CO at which POW Camp ??
« Reply #10 on: Friday 01 August 14 20:38 BST (UK) »
He was CO of the Isle of Man Internment Camp in 1940, if that helps.

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Re: Lt Col Marsh - CO at which POW Camp ??
« Reply #11 on: Friday 01 August 14 21:05 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Spikey68 on Friday 01 August 14 20:38 BST (UK)
He was CO of the Isle of Man Internment Camp in 1940, if that helps.
brilliant..many thanks for searching for that. what was the Isle of Man Internment Camp for - German Pow's ??

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Re: Lt Col Marsh - CO at which POW Camp ??
« Reply #12 on: Friday 01 August 14 21:21 BST (UK) »
My apologies. I appear to have the wrong Marsh. The CO of that camp was R G Marsh, not C R C Marsh :( Most books just say Marsh and sadly I turned 2 and 2 into 5.

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Re: Lt Col Marsh - CO at which POW Camp ??
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Re: Lt Col Marsh - CO at which POW Camp ??
« Reply #14 on: Friday 01 August 14 22:40 BST (UK) »
I have just seen the Orbit on WW2 talk.com. Discount all my posts - They are all irrelevant to your research.

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Re: Lt Col Marsh - CO at which POW Camp ??
« Reply #15 on: Friday 01 August 14 23:40 BST (UK) »
Seemed to have transferred twice during the war:

The following officers are transferred, retaining their ranks and seniority: 24th Dec. 1941:-
Capts.:—

Surrey Regt
C. R. C. Marsh, M.B.E. (18366), from K.S.L.I.


PIONEER CORPS.
War Subs. Maj. C. R. C. MARSH, M.B.E. (18366) having exceeded the age limit of liability to recall,
ceases to belong to the Res. of Offrs., 14th Aug. 1946, and is granted the hon. rank of Lt.-Col.

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Re: Lt Col Marsh - CO at which POW Camp ??
« Reply #16 on: Friday 08 August 14 16:51 BST (UK) »
Hi

Pioneer Corps would make sense if he was CO of a POW / internment camp. The Pioneer Corps guarded many of the mid-low level security camps.

Matt
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