de Nobriga, D J

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Sergeant Derrick John de Nobriga

Family/Last name:
de Nobriga
Forename(s) and initial(s):
Derrick John
Place of birth:
Shooters Hill, London
Date of birth:
19/8/1918
Service number:
6896540
Military Unit:
British Army, King's Royal Rifle Corps
Rank when captured:
Sergeant
Place of capture:
Sicily
Date of capture:
8/1941
POW number:
220792
Camp
PG 78 Sulmona, Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf / Stalag 344, Stalag IVB Mühlberg (Elbe)
Data sources
The National Archives (UK)Other Sources (Relative's report)
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Information provided by Jeremy Padgham (son) :

Derrick John de Nobriga
POW no. 220792.

My father joined the Kings Royal Rifle Corps (KRRC) in 1939 and after training in Scotland he was sent to the Mediterranean as a Commando from Submarines based on Malta. He was captured in August 1941 whilst on a mission at Militello Castello on Sicily and spent two years in Camp 78 Sulmona, Italy, before being sent to Lamsdorf in August 1943.

He left Lamsdorf on the Death March on 22 January 1945 and escaped on 11 April 1945, then met up with the Americans at Kassel and was flown home into RAF Wing on 16 April 1945.

The following men were captured on the same raid (as mentioned in the London Gazette dated 9th April 1946):
Lt. Dudley Schofield
Lance Sjt. Robert Hall Brown
Cpl. J. H. Ferguson (aka Fergie)
L/Cpl. Luke John Morris
L/Cpl. Francis Cecil Morgan (aka Chunky Morgan)
Rifleman Albert Mailly Andrews
Corporal Robert Young (POW no. 2580827). His name was on the escape document with my father.

 

Editor’s Note: Date of Birth is also stated on the UK National Archives as 19 August 1915.

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