Capreol, Edward Louis (Flight Sergeant)

Prisoner of War 1943-11-26

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Birth Date: unkown date

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Home:

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: Unknown

Service

RCAF

Unit

76 Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Resolute

Base

RAF Holme-on-Spalding Moor

Rank

Flight Sergeant

Position

Flight Sergeant

Service Numbers

R/150348
PoW: 263569

Took off from Holme on Spalding Moor at 16:51 in Halifax Mark V (Sqn code: MP-F Bomber Command) on an operation to Stuttgart Germany.

Shot down by a night-fighter and crashed at Malborn Germany near Cologne.

Killed:Flight Sergeant Evan James Berndt RCAF R/182015 KIA Cologne Southern Cemetery Plot 4. Row AA. Grave 15.

POWs includes Capreol:Flying Officer Norman Wilan Mann RCAF J/21442 POW Stalag Luft L1 Barth Vogelsang.Sergeant Peter Drummond RAF POW Stalag 4B Muhlberg (Elbe).Sergeant Alan Cedric Fuller RAF POW Stalag 4C Wistritz bei Teplitz.Sergeant John Hodgson RAF POW Stalag Luft L3 Sagan and Belaria.Sergeant Frank Jackson Winterbottom RAF POW Stalag Luft L3 Sagan and Belaria.

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