KAHL, Frederick George
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Rank:
Captain
Unit / Base:
6 Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
Service:
Army
Number:
91377
Born:
Wednesday, February 22, 1911
Birthplace:
Streatham, London
Died :
Wednesday, September 9, 1942
Died on war service
Died in the UK
Age:
31
Cemetery/Memorial:
Captain Frederick Kahl, 3 Troop, was accidentally killed in a climbing accident on the Milestone Buttress of Tryfan mountain near Bethesda, Wales.
Educated at Canford School from 1925. Entered Worcester College 11 October 1929, and achieved 2nd class honours in Jurisprudence in 1932. Played hockey and cricket for the College and was also a member of the Oxford University Officer Cadet Corps. After graduation he served in the Territorial Army as a member of the Honourable Artillery Company. 5 July 1939 commissioned Second Lieutenant 9th Bn. Royal Fusiliers. Joined No.6 Commando in 1942*.
Sources
CWGC.
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/3.
Report in the Liverpool Evening Express 10 September 1942.
Report in the Gloucester Citizen 11 September 1942.
* London Gazette 34642, page 4573.
*No.6 Commando War Diary / National Archives file WO218/37.
*Entry in the Worcester College ROH-members who died in 1942 [view their own ROH].
[Image credit] 'The Provost and Fellows of Worcester College, Oxford’.
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