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1.
DAr, POW, 18/A4 Repatriation of POW, 309A: Death of
No. 1577 Pte. Douglas Clarke, SA Forces, 7.2.1945.
2.
Ibid.
3. Info Dr R. J. Thomas, 3.8.1995; USAAF
Missing Air Crew Reports
4. SwAr, E2001 (D) -3/3/310:
Statements by J.F. Welsh, J.W. Rowe & W. Frost,
& declarations by R.R. Cameron, R.N. Jackson, E.A.
Welsh & C.C. van Rensburg; British Legation Berne,
5.2.1945.
5. DAr, POW 18/A4 Repatriation of POW,
309A: Death of No. 1577 Pie Douglas Clarke, SA Forces,
7.2.1945.
6. Ibid.
7. SwAr. E 2001, (D)
-.3/310: Schweizerische Armee: Armeekommando - Der Chef
des Territorialdienstes, (sgd ) Munch, 7.2.1945.
8.
Ibid. C.J. Norton - W Stucki. 9.2.1945.
9. DAr,
POW. 18/A4 Repatriation of POW, 0103/3406 (R.V.2.) 319A
& 327A, 16.2.1945 (English translation). A copy
of this document is in the NAr, BLO 39/161/30 part 1:
POW escaping into Switzerland, 0103/3406 (R.V.2.) 319
A. The original French text is in SwAr, E 2001 (D) -/3/310.
The document identifier "=EF" may have been
the official's or the translator's initials.
10.
NAr, BLO 39/161/30 part I Prisoners of War: Enquiry
into death of No. 1577 Private Douglas Clarke S.A. Forces.
2.3.1945
11. SwAr. E 2001 (D), '310:
Statement by Pte. W Frost, N.Z.E.F, British Legation
Berne, 5.2.1945.
12. Ibid, C.J. Norton - M. Petitpierre,
5.4.1945, & L. Harrison - W. Stucki. 5.4.1945; see
also DAr. POW, 18/A4, Repatriation of POW. 329A: 23.4.1945.
13.
DAr, POW, 18/A4. Repatriation of POW, 341B: 7.5.1945
(English translation). The original French version is
in Sw Ar, E 2001 (D) -/3/310.
14. NAr, BLO 39/161/30,
minute 16.5.1945.
15. J.F. Welsh, untitled MS
(with slight editing by author), 8.8.1993: & info
J.F. Welsh, 9.9.1993.
16. SwAr, E 2001 (D) -13/310.
Schweizerische Armee: Armeekommando: Der Chef des Territorialdienstes.
7.2.1945.
17. Info Dr R.J. Thomas, 3.8.1995.
The Germans sent the three captured crew of "Baby
Shoes" to the Oberursel Dulag Loft camp near Frankfurt.
They survived the war and returned home in 1945.
18.
War Department Headquarters Army Air Forces, Washington,
Casualty Questionnaire, Missing Air Crew Report, n/d.
(Info Dr Thomas)
19. Info Mrs Eileen Fowle, 5.9.1991.
The Clarkes had five children: Douglas, Eileen, Cecil,
Dulcie and Eunice.
20. Ibid, 25.3.1997.
21.DAr, Record of Service J. R. Chisholm; & info F.
T. Vlok, 15.7.1992.
22.
Ibid. Record of Service
E.J. Lawlor.
23. Info Dr R.J. Thomas & P. Christmann/R. Maurer.
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