Anthony O'Brien
John Robertson

Anthony O'Brien

Anthony Trevor Knapp O'Brien
born 16.8.1919 War Memorial Hospital,Nakuru,Kenya
son of Adrian Hellyar Murrough Knapp O'Brien and Monica Gwendolyne Mary O'Brien
enlisted 26.6.1937 Kenya Regiment (service number 328640)
Nyasaland King's African Rifles 1.9.1939
1 Bn King's African Rifles (Sgt) 1940s
commissioned 2Lt King's African Rifles 1.2.1941
court-martialled and re-enlisted Cairo
1 Bn Welch Regiment
1 SAS (Sergeant 3977936) 1942
POW 30.12.1942 North Africa
Stalag Luft III 1943
Stalag Luft VI 1943-44
Stalag Luft I 1944
Stalag 357 (POW No 884) 1944-45
liberated 1945
married Phylida Elsie Waters 26.6.1948 Nakuru,Kenya (1914-98)
died 16.7.1975 Nairobi,Kenya

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