ELDRIDGE, Leonard Frederick
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Rank:
Sergeant
Unit / Base:
2 Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Fusiliers (City of London)
Service:
Army
Number:
6461633
Died :
Saturday, March 28, 1942
Killed in action or died of wounds
Age:
20
Cemetery/Memorial:
Operations:
Local Roll of Honour:
Sergeant Leonard Eldridge, 2 troop, was reported missing 28 March 1942 after Operation Chariot at St Nazaire, later presumed killed in action. He had embarked for the raid on Motor Launch ML 447 and has no known grave. Son of Frederick and Lily May Eldridge; husband of Margaret Alice Eldridge, of Tunbridge Wells, Kent.
Sources
CWGC.
CWGC.
Casualty Lists / National Archives files WO417/41 (1942) and WO417/95 (1945).
St Nazaire Society website.
[Image credit] Karen Eldridge.
St Nazaire Society website.
[Image credit] Karen Eldridge.
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