from Adlington,Lancashire
born 27.8.1917
enlisted 15.3.1940
service number 5116059
8 Bn Royal Warwickshire Regiment (HQ Company,M/T)
Corporal 1.1.1942
Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) 1943
1 Bn Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding) 9.5.1943 (Cpl)
2 SAS (HQ Squadron,M/T) September 1943 (Pte) - 1945
SAS War Crimes Investigation Team October 1945-April 1946
demobilised July 1946
married Margaret Smith 6.10.1942 Mablethorpe,Lincolnshire (died 5.10.2002)
died 4.10.1987
photo courtesy of Joseph Ratcliffe,WW2 People's War
www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar
