Initials: P S
Surname: Allcoat
Birth Town: South West London
Resided Town: South West London
Nationality: British
Date of Death: 08/12/1943
Information: Parents: Ernest John and Letitia May Allcoat, of Thorpe Bay, Essex.
Rank: Driver
Service Number: 2587006
Service: British Army
Regiment: Royal Corps Of Signals
Battalion: 2 Armd. Div. Sigs. (The Middlesex Yeomanry).
Commemorated: Britain
Place of Death: Italy
Captured on 8 April 1941 when 2nd Armoured Division was destroyed in the Western Desert. Transported to Italy and held at Campo 78. Killed in action as a prisoner of war on 8 December 1943 (with Sergeant E. A. Parker, Signalman T. Jones, Signalman E. M. Sinclair and 57 other Commonwealth prisoners of war) after the Italian Armistice when a prisoner of war train was bombed at Aquila station by aircraft from 321st Bombardment Group (Medium), United States Army Air Force.
Originally buried at Aquila, his remains were reinterred on 23 February 1945 at Ancona War Cemetery, Italy.
Initials: P S
Surname: Allcoat
Birth Town: South West London
Resided Town: South West London
Nationality: British
Date of Death: 08/12/1943
Information: Parents: Ernest John and Letitia May Allcoat, of Thorpe Bay, Essex.
Rank: Driver
Service Number: 2587006
Service: British Army
Regiment: Royal Corps Of Signals
Battalion: 2 Armd. Div. Sigs. (The Middlesex Yeomanry).
Commemorated: Britain
Place of Death: Italy
Captured on 8 April 1941 when 2nd Armoured Division was destroyed in the Western Desert. Transported to Italy and held at Campo 78. Killed in action as a prisoner of war on 8 December 1943 (with Sergeant E. A. Parker, Signalman T. Jones, Signalman E. M. Sinclair and 57 other Commonwealth prisoners of war) after the Italian Armistice when a prisoner of war train was bombed at Aquila station by aircraft from 321st Bombardment Group (Medium), United States Army Air Force.
Originally buried at Aquila, his remains were reinterred on 23 February 1945 at Ancona War Cemetery, Italy.
Inscription
GOD IS HIS OWN INTERPRETER AND HE WILL MAKE IT PLAIN
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2587006
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