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Type of entity
Person
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Holcroft, Ronald Stanley
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Description area
Dates of existence
1916-2015
History
Ronald Stanley Holcroft was born in Wolverhampton, UK on November 15, 1916. Prior to enlistment in WWII, Holcroft studied economics at Cambridge University and also studied acting. During WWII he served as a member of the military police for the British Army. He was captured in 1940 during the evacuation of Dunkirk and spent the rest of the war at various German prisoner of war camps, including Stalag VIIIB. After the war Holcroft studied agriculture and emigrated to Canada in 1953. After a brief career working in agriculture in Brampton, Ontario he worked as a teacher in various locations in southern Ontario. Ronald Holcroft died on August 4, 2015 in Saltspring Island, B.C..