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Private Herbert Coote Geelan

Family/Last name:
Geelan
Forename(s) and initial(s):
Herbert Coote
Place of birth:
Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Date of birth:
5/12/1910
Nationality:
Irish
Service number:
6143345
Military Unit:
British Army, East Surrey Regiment, 1st Battalion (East Surrey Reg)
Rank when captured:
Private
Place of capture:
Kerkhove, Belgium
Date of capture:
5/1940
POW number:
6454
Camp
Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf / Stalag 344
Medical Facility
Stalag VIIIB/344 Lazarette
Data sources
The National Archives (UK)Other Sources (Relative's Report)
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Herbert Coote Geelan

Subject: Private H.C. Geelan

I would like to have my father’s name added to the list of inmates at Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf: Herbert Coote Geelan.

He was a private in No 9 Platoon A Company 1st battalion the East Surrey Regiment (Army number 6143345).

In May 1940 he was wounded and captured at Kerkhove in Belgium and following treatment in a hospital in Aachen(?) was sent to the lazarett/hospital at Stalag VIIIB where he remained until being repatriated in October 1943.

His name is recorded in a book kept by an RAMC orderly William (George) Jordan to which he added a poem and cartoon.

He also appears on the extreme right of the rear rank of a photograph of the ‘Panto Frolics’ (below) from a collection on your site from another RAMC orderly Sidney Smith.

Coote Geelan

Herbert Coote Geelan

Herbert Coote Geelan

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