SIS Barratt, Reginald Harry

John Robertson

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Staff member
  • SURNAME
Barratt
  • FORENAME
Reginald Harry
  • UNIT
MI9
  • RANK
Warrant Officer
  • NUMBER
937633
  • DATE OF DEATH
4th June 1945
  • AGE
41
  • GRAVESITE
Runnymede Memorial,Surrey,England Panel 269
  • ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
parent unit Royal Air Force
born 10.1908, Leicester, England
son of William and Elizabeth Barratt,Leicester
husband of Kathleen Evelyn Barratt,Leicester
wireless operator/air gunner
9 Squadron,Bomber Command
Wellington IC R1758 shot down into sea off Zeebrugge,Belgium 9.6.1941
POW 9.6.1941
Stalag VIIIB,Teschen,Germany
escaped and exchanged IDs with Rilfleman (859814) G.S. Godden,Rifle Brigade
recaptured
POW Camp 357,Vaar,Hungary (as G.S. Godden) (POW number 18299)
escaped and arrived Budapest July 1944
MI9 Hungary
alias Tim Barker
walked out of Budapest and contacted Russians 3.12.1944
arrested by the NKVD 8.12.1944
last seen by Miss Evelyn Gore-Symes December 1944 (see SIS Awards)
Christmas Card received by his stepfather Mr J. Bell dated Vienna 1946
last seen in Czechoslovakia 22.4.1945
reported in Bratislava
reported transported to Moscow,Russia
no trace has been found concerning his fate
presumed shot by the Russians
 
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