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{{Personnel
|id=132
|Surname and forenames=Mertens John Charles
|Army number=99148
|Rank=Lt
|Date of birth=
|Age=0
|Unit=Durham Light Infantry - Comm as 2/Lt 12th Bn 2/9/1939, Embodied 24/8/1939, Trf Black Watch 20/12/1939, Posted 1 TS 1/2/1940, B.E.F., PoW, SHAEF, 21 Army Group, Control Commission, Demobilised 1946 as Hon Major. TARO (BW) 1/9/1948.
|Task or role=PoW 1940-45, Staff Captain, Civil Affairs, SOIII, SOII
|Promotions=W/S Lt 2/3/41, T/Captain 23/7/1945, W/S Captain and T/Major 10/1/46.
|Prisoner of War=O9A/Z, 326
|Died/Killed in action=
|Home address=Older son of John Thompson Mertens. Educated Tonbridge School and Durham University. Victoria House, Vernon Place, Bloomsbury Square, London, WC 1. Electrical Engineer. Emigrated to Australia 1966 - 22, McLeod Avenue, Roseville, New South Wales.
|Source table=1TS
|Company/Battery=C Coy
}}

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 |Date of birth=Not yet known.
 |Age=0
-|Unit=Durham Light Infantry - Commissioned as 2/Lt in the 12th Bn 2/9/1939. Embodied 24/8/1939. Trf Black Watch 20/12/1939. Posted 1 TS 1/2/1940. B.E.F., Prisoner of War.  SHAEF, 21 Army Group, Control Commission, Demobilised 1946 as Hon Major. TARO (BW) 1/9/1948.
+|Unit=Durham Light Infantry - Commissioned as 2/Lt in the 12th Bn 2/9/1939. Embodied 24/8/1939. Transferred to the Black Watch 20/12/1939. Posted to the 1st Tyneside Scottish 1/2/1940. Served with the B.E.F. in Northern France.  Taken Prisoner of War.  Repatriated to the UK.  Posted to SHAEF, 21 Army Group, Control Commission, Demobilised 1946 as Hon Major. TARO (BW) 1/9/1948.
-|Task or role=PoW 1940-45, Staff Captain, Civil Affairs, SO III, SO II
+|Task or role=PoW 1940-45, Staff Captain, Civil Affairs, SO III, SO II.
 |Joined Brigade=1/9/1939
 |Promotions=W/S Lt 2/3/41, T/Captain 23/7/1945, W/S Captain and T/Major 10/1/46.
-|Prisoner of War=O9A/Z, 326
+|Prisoner of War=Oflag VIB, O9A/Z, PoW Number 326
 |Died/Killed in action=Date of death not yet known.
 |Home address=Older son of John Thompson Mertens and his late wife, of Shortlands, Kent and Calcutta.  Educated Tonbridge School and Durham University.  Married 10/3/1947 to Alice M Anstice of Windsor, Berks, at Caxton Hall Westminster and on 22/3/1947 at Evangelisches Kirche, Mulheim-Broich, Germany.  Victoria House, Vernon Place, Bloomsbury Square, London, WC 1. Electrical Engineer. Emigrated to Australia 1966 - 22, McLeod Avenue, Roseville, New South Wales.

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 |Unit=Durham Light Infantry - Commissioned as 2/Lt in the 12th Bn 2/9/1939. Embodied 24/8/1939. Trf Black Watch 20/12/1939. Posted 1 TS 1/2/1940. B.E.F., Prisoner of War.  SHAEF, 21 Army Group, Control Commission, Demobilised 1946 as Hon Major. TARO (BW) 1/9/1948.
 |Task or role=PoW 1940-45, Staff Captain, Civil Affairs, SO III, SO II
 |Promotions=W/S Lt 2/3/41, T/Captain 23/7/1945, W/S Captain and T/Major 10/1/46.
 |Prisoner of War=O9A/Z, 326

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 |Age=0
 |Unit=Durham Light Infantry - Comm as 2/Lt 12th Bn 2/9/1939, Embodied 24/8/1939, Trf Black Watch 20/12/1939, Posted 1 TS 1/2/1940, B.E.F., PoW,  SHAEF, 21 Army Group, Control Commission, Demobilised 1946 as Hon Major. TARO (BW) 1/9/1948.
-|Task or role=PoW 1940-45, Staff Captain, Civil Affairs, SOIII, SOII
+|Task or role=PoW 1940-45, Staff Captain, Civil Affairs, SO III, SO II
 |Promotions=W/S Lt 2/3/41, T/Captain 23/7/1945, W/S Captain and T/Major 10/1/46.
 |Prisoner of War=O9A/Z, 326
 |Died/Killed in action=
-|Home address=Older son of John Thompson Mertens.  Educated Tonbridge School and Durham University.  Victoria House, Vernon Place, Bloomsbury Square, London, WC 1. Electrical Engineer. Emigrated to Australia 1966 - 22, McLeod Avenue, Roseville, New South Wales.
+|Home address=Older son of John Thompson Mertens and his late wife, of Shortlands, Kent and Calcutta.  Educated Tonbridge School and Durham University.  Married 10/3/1947 to Alice M Anstice of Windsor, Berks, at Caxton Hall Westminster and on 22/3/1947 at Evangelisches Kirche, Mulheim-Broich, Germany.  Victoria House, Vernon Place, Bloomsbury Square, London, WC 1. Electrical Engineer. Emigrated to Australia 1966 - 22, McLeod Avenue, Roseville, New South Wales.
 |Source table=1TS
 |Company/Battery=C Coy
 }}