BLOWER, Alfred
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Known as:
Alfy
Rank:
Private
Unit / Base:
2 Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Kings Regiment (Liverpool)
Service:
Army
Number:
3772259
Died :
Wednesday, September 15, 1943
Killed in action or died of wounds
Age:
25
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Operations:
Local Roll of Honour:
Private Alfred Blower, 4 troop, died of wounds received at Dragone Hill, Salerno, on the 13th September 1943. He died at 67 General Hospital CMF. Son of Alfred and Elizabeth Blower, of Liverpool; husband of Winifred Blower, of Liverpool.
Extract from the Liverpool Evening Express - Friday 08 December 1944.
Private Alfred Blower (26), The King’s Regiment (Liverpool), serving with a Commando unit, of Fontenoy Street, Liverpool, 3, has been killed in action in Italy. He was an old boy of the Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel School, Toxteth.
Extract from the Liverpool Evening Express - Monday 23 July 1945.
In Memoriam
You left behind a broken heart
That loved you most sincere
That never has and never will
Forget you, Alfy, dear.
- Never forgotten by his loving wife Winnie.
Sources
CWGC.
Casualty Lists / National Archives WO417/68.
Document '2 Commando Salerno Casualties' (see below).
Liverpool Evening Express
[Image] Cropped from a 4 Troop image in the Gallery
Notes
67 British General Hospital was, at this time, located at Philippeville, Algeria.
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