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5108809 Staff Sergeant/Colour Sergeant Ernest Cox

Picture of Soldier of 11th Parachute Battalion

Born: 06 Nov 1914

Company: A
Section: HQ
Parachute Course: CH27

Prisoner of War — No. 80244

Captured on 25 Sep 1944

  • Stalag 12A — Limburg, Hessen-Nassau
  • Stalag 8C — Sagan, Silesia

Released: 20 Apr 1945


Thanks to R.P. “Bob” Hilton; Diana Andrews; Allan Brown; Andrew Blacklock; Jon Baker; John Howes; Graham Francis; Bob Gerritsen; Darren Wielink; Maarten Lenssen; Judith Minkman; Philip Reinders; Hans den Brok; many 11th Battalion veterans; family, next of kin and friends; staff of the Airborne Museum Hartenstein Oosterbeek; Airborne Assault Museum Duxford; and Gerrit Pijpers OBE without whom this website would not have been possible.