1944 - 1949
The definitive research resource for the 1st KOSB from 1944-1949
1st KOSB RESEARCHING
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Rank
First name/nick name
Surname
Pte
Charles Edward
Hardcastle
Service No. if known
1152457
Company/Platoon if known
Researching
Research notes (if anything found)
Enlisted 1942 into Royal Artillery (Field, Coastal & Anti-Aircraft) transferred KOYLI (6ITC) 14 October 1943
Missing 22 October 1944 serving with The King's Own Scottish Borderers . Confirmed as a PoW no camp or PoW number listed.
Released 1945 confirmed captured North West Europe with 1st Bn The King's Own Scottish Borderers
Hull Daily Mail 20 November 1944
Mrs Hardcastle 22 Cammidge Street,Withernsea,has received news that her son Pte Charles Edward Hardcastle is missing in North West Europe and believed to be a Prisoner of War .He is 20 years old and before going to Withernsea lived at Dalton Street, Wilmington Hull. He left the employ of the BBC to join H M Forcesand as a boy attended Chapman Street School.
Released June 45
Sources of information (*BC denotes Borderers Chronicle and month/year)
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