PAGET, Ernest Arthur
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Known as:
Ginger
Rank:
Corporal (later Second Lieutenant)
Unit / Base:
4 Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Berkshire Regiment
Royal Welch Fusiliers
Service:
Army
Number:
5342934 and 339146
Born:
1915
Born:
Friday, April 23, 1915
Birthplace:
Bristol
Died:
1998
Place died:
South Africa
Ernest Arthur Paget, No.4 Commando, is recorded as taking part in the Dieppe raid (Operation Jubilee) in August 1942. Later commissioned Second Lieutenant (R.W.F.) on 11 January 1945.
In 1939 Ernest was residing in Bristol with his parents Mary and Thomas and employed as a bus conductor and Special Police Constable. His father Thomas was disabled (leg amputation) as a result of military service in World War One.
After the war Ernest continued to work in transport and was in general management positions in buses in the UK. He transferred to South Africa in this role when moving there in 1962 taking up a post of Assistant General Manager to the City Tramways in Cape Town. Member of the Commando Association.
Sources
List of No.4 Commandos at Dieppe.
London Gazette 36984, page 1434.
The 1939 Register covering Bristol.
Commando Association newsletter 37 (1963) and Obituaries in newsletter 108 (1999).
[Image] Philip Paget, son.
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