KING, Ernest Taylor
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Rank:
Lance Corporal
Unit / Base:
11 Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Lincolnshire Regiment 6th Bn
Service:
Army
Service Number:
4803483
Died :
Monday, June 9, 1941
Killed in action or died of wounds
Age:
20
Cemetery/Memorial:
Operations:
Lance Corporal Ernest King was reported missing 9 June 1941 during operations at Litani River, Syria, later confirmed killed in action. He has no known grave. Son of Norman T. and May King, of Surfleet, Lincolnshire.
Remembered with honour on the Alamein Memorial and on a memorial tablet on the North wall of St Laurence's Church, Surfleet*.
Sources
CWGC.
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/28.
* Report on the unveiling of the memorial tablet in the Stamford Mercury 20 December 1946.
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