Flight Sergeant Arch Riley

Family/Last name:
Riley
Forename(s) and initial(s):
Arch
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Rank when captured:
Date of capture:
1943
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I found your website – and thought I would add a name.

My father was Arch Riley – he was a Flight Sergeant shot down on his first Spitfire mission in 1943 – and spent the next 28 months as a POW.

He ended up at Lamsdorf – and was on the death march which for him started on January 22 and ended at Stalag 90 in Bad Sulza on March 15 (1945).

I have no record of his registration numbers, but he was in 485 squadron. He survived the war and died in 1978 aged 64 – having been in fairly poor health for some years.

Kimbal (son).

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