Feetham Charles L /Cpl 4457409
Personnel Entry
Name Feetham Charles
Army number 4457409
Rank Lance Corporal.
Decorations None known beyond Service Awards.
Date of birth Born 7/7/1918. Birth registered Sunderland July 1918, mother's maiden surname McKie.
Age 75 at the time of his death.
Unit Enlisted in The Durham Light Infantry 15/9/1939. Posted to the 10th Battalion DLI. Served in Northern France with the B.E.F. Taken Prisoner of War at Arras 20/5/1940 - formal notification of PoW Status received 12/7/1940. Repatriated to the UK 2/5/1945. Relegated to the Class Z Army Reserve 11/5/1946.
Company/Battery Not yet known.
Platoon or other sub-unit Not yet known.
Task or role Not yet ascertained but probably Rifleman.
Joined Brigade 15/9/1939.
Promotions Lance Corporal. No others known.
Wounded No.
Prisoner of War Yes - held in Stalag XXA - Thorn, Poland 8/6/1940 to 19/7/1940, Danzig 19/7/1940 to 22/12/1942, Stalag 20B Marienburg, Prussia 22/12/1942 to 22/1/1943, Worked at a wood factory Reisenburg 22/1/1943 to 20/1/1945. PoW Number 6928.
Died/Killed in action Death registered Sunderland July 1993, aged 75.
Home address Worked as a French Polisher and lived at 10, Cooper Street, Roker, Sunderland. Married Catherine Painter - Sunderland - January 1947.
Source table 10DLI
Additional information on Lance Corporal Feetham was extracted from the MI9 PoW Questionnaire held on Ancestry.co.uk.
