JAY, Francis Hubert

Known as: 
Bert
Rank: 
Trooper
Unit / Base: 
40RM Commando
Special Service (Commando) Group, Brigade, and Brigade Signals
Regiment/Corps: 
Royal Horse Guards
Service: 
Army
Number: 
305985
Died : 
Wednesday, March 22, 1944
Killed in action or died of wounds
Age: 
21
Cemetery/Memorial: 
Trooper Francis Jay died during an enemy aerial attack against commandos based on the island of Vis. At the time of his death he was a signaller attached to 40RM Commando, 2 Special Service Brigade. Son of Harold George and Freda Rose Ellen Jay, and brother of Winnie, of Olton, Birmingham.

Sources
CWGC.
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/74.
Memories of Sig. Bryan Woolnough MBE, 2 Special Service Brigade Signals.
 
Primary Roll of Honour: 

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