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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 1177" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Orr </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Adam </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>62 Commando (Small Scale Raiding Force) </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Sergeant </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>6387010 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>DATE OF DEATH</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>12th April 1945 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AGE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>23 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>GRAVESITE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Durnbach War Cemetery,Germany 3.F.10 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>true name Opoczynski,Abraham</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>parent unit Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born c1922 Lodz,Poland</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>son of Hirsh and Yetta Opoczynski</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>nephew of Mr L. Spiro,Forest Gate,Essex</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>described in accounts as a "Polish Jew"</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>journalist</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>escaped to England 1938</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>foreign correspondent for a Polish newspaper</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>POW Normandy September 1942 - executed Germany (date approx)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Op.Aquatint </em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/a-orr-grave.34591/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/34/34591-6e8c15e18d6bd41f708cef7f54ad6491.jpg?1607955563" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></em></p></blockquote><p></p>
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