Alldread Fred Pte 4457998
Personnel Entry
Name Alldread Fred
Army number 4457998
Rank Pte
Decorations
Date of birth 18/11/1918 (according to record of death certificate).
Age 69 at the time of his death.
Unit Joined The Durham Light Infantry, no enlistment date as yet, but his Regimental Number suggests Summer 1939. Posted ? 6th Bn DLI. Posted 10th Bn DLI - probably 1/9/1939. Served in Northern France with the B.E.F. Notification received that he had been taken Prisoner of War (probably on 20/5/1940 or shortly thereafter) on 20/6/1940. Repatriated early to the UK. Discharged under King's Regulations 1940 Para 390 (xvi) 21/6/1944.
Company/Battery C Company.
Platoon or other sub-unit
Task or role
Joined Brigade Probably 1/9/1939.
Promotions
Wounded
Prisoner of War Camp Number Stalag 8B, PoW Number 36822.
Died/Killed in action Died 4/11/1987 aged 69 at Stapleford, Nottinghamshire. Buried in Grave JE14 in Stapleford Cemetery, together with his wife Kathleen, who died in 2010.
Home address Research indicates a marriage to Kathleen Ford Q1 1947 in Belper, Derbyshire.
Source table 10DLI
Pte Alldread's early discharge suggests that he may have been repatriated early, possibly on grounds of sickness, which is perhaps why he does not appear in the Official Register of PoWs for WW2, although he was included on a formal list of those repatriated in correspondence files at The National Archives, Kew.
