Private Ronald Jack McKinney

Family/Last name:
McKinney
Forename(s) and initial(s):
Ronald Jack
Place of birth:
New Zealand
Date of birth:
16/7/1916
Nationality:
Service number:
12264
Rank when captured:
Place of capture:
Egypt
Date of capture:
4/9/1942
POW number:
32973
Camp
Working Party
Data sources
The National Archives (UK)Other Sources (WO416 records transcribed by and held at the UK National Archives. Data processed and prepared by Rick Catt and Brian Cooper)

From Brian Cooper. 01.10.2024

Data source: WO 392/21, WO 416/239/80 and WO 208/3363.

McKinney was in 26th (Canterbury and Otago) Battalion of the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force.

Extra details: Reported at PG 57 Gruppignano, Udine, Italy.
Registered at Stalag XVIIIC aka Stalag 317; personalkarte says Stalag 317.
Arrived: 24.9.43 at Stalag VIIIA
Arrived: 4.11.43 at Stalag VIIIB
Work camps in Germany [as recorded on personalkarte]
4.11.43 E732 Reichsbahn heubauamt. [Railway haymaking office.]
19.1.44 E535 Milowice.

Escaped 13.9.44 with 7814 Pte. Wilfred Samuel Henry Gilmour, 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force. 19.9.44 met Partisan forces in Slovakia. Evacuated by air to Bari, Italy.
Notes:
1. E732 more generally recorded at another location in the Kattowitz area.

McKinney was interrogated on 8th Oct 1944.   Read the interrogation report.

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