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Recipients of Prisoner of War (escapee) awards
Recipients of Prisoner of War (escapee) awards
Army Order 193 of 1919 permitted the retrospective granting of gallantry awards for services in captivity; this community tries to bring together the recipients. The Army Order clearly recognised that many acts of gallantry and devotion to duty had previously gone unrecognised, because they were unwitnessed, or because those who had witnessed them were prisoners of war. It allowed rewards for services in the Field, some of which were awarded two or more years after the action being recognised, and for services whilst a Prisoner of War.
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Born 1880
British Army 6236 Boy / Drummer / Private 2nd Battalion, The Royal Scots
British Army 6236 Lance Corporal 2nd Battalion, The Royal Scots Colata, India
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British Army PS/8048 Private Royal Fusiliers
British Army GS/97743 Private Royal Fusiliers 20th Battalion
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British Army 7193 Private London Regiment 29th lond Battalion
British Army RS/7193 Private Royal Fusiliers 21st Battalion
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British Army 204089 Serjeant Leicestershire Regiment
British Army 61627 Serjeant Leicestershire Regiment
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British Army Temporary Captain 1st Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
British Army Temporary Major 1st Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
British Army Acting Lieutenant Colonel 1st Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
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British Army 8955 Private Coldstream Guards
British Army 709319 Private Royal Garrison Artillery
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Born 1880
British Army 12522 Private Coldstream Guards
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Born 1896
Died 1918
British Army Captain 1st Division, 3rd Brigade 1st Battalion Gloucestershire Regt
British Army Second Lieutenant Gloucestershire Regiment Captured near Givenchy, escaped in 1917
British Army Captain Gloucestershire Regiment 1st Battalion
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Born 1893
Australian Imperial Force 400 Private 16th Battalion, Australian Infantry Prisoner of war escapee
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British Army Lieutenant 4th Dragons Guards
British Army Captain Royal Flying Corps
British Army Major Royal Flying Corps
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British Army 2234 Private Northumberland Regiment 2nd Battalion
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British Army 4527 Private Liverpool Regiment
British Army 306954 Private 1/8th Battalion, Liverpool Regiment
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British Army 13/297 Serjeant Acting Company Serjeant Major East Yorkshire Regiment
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Born 1879
Died 1947
British Army Second Lieutenant Highland Light Infantry attached South Wales Borderers
British Army Lieutenant Captain Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
British Army Captain Highland Light Infantry 3 Bn.
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Born 1890
Australian Imperial Force Second Lieutenant 40th Battalion, Australian Infantry
Australian Imperial Force Captain 47th Battalion, Australian Infantry
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British Army 2091 Private Dragoon Guards
British Army D/2091 Private Dragoon Guards
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Born 1892
Died 1965
British Army Captain Royal Engineers Prisoner of War (Defence of Kut-al-Amarah)
British Army Second Lieutenant Royal Engineers, Chatham, Kent
British Army Captain Royal Engineers
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Born 1887
Died 1962
British Army S/4532 Private The Queen's Regiment
British Army 4532 Private Royal West Surrey Regiment 1st Battalion
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