WILLIAMS, Francis Arthur
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Known as:
Frank
Rank:
Trooper
Unit / Base:
9 Commando
Prior Police Service:
Metropolitan Police
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Armoured Corps
Service:
Army
Number:
14241758
Born:
Sunday, July 15, 1917
Died:
1986
Place died:
Devon
Trooper Francis Williams was wounded 19 March 1944 during operations in Italy (Monte Ornito and Monte Faito). He volunteered for the Commandos as part of the Police Intakes. In 1939 he was a Police Constable at the Police Station, 256 Hornsey Road.
Post war member of the Commando Association.
Sources
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/73.
The 1939 Register covering Islington Borough.
Obituaries in Commando Association newsletter 84 (1987).
Registers of Deaths in Barnstaple Devon, regsitered in Nov.1986.
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