CARTLIDGE, Horace C.
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Rank:
Lance Sergeant
Unit / Base:
6 Commando
Regiment/Corps:
West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)
Service:
Army
Number:
4542130
Died :
Tuesday, December 9, 1941
Died on war service
Cemetery/Memorial:
Lance Sergeant Horace Cartlidge died as a result of a grenade priming accident at sea late afternoon on 9 December 1941 whilst aboard H.M.S. Prince Charles. The ship was being used for night time landings. Son of Sydney and Clara Cartlidge, of Ferrybridge, Yorkshire. Also killed was Gunner Thomas Pritchard.
Sources
CWGC.
No.6 Cdo War Diary / Court of Enquiry report National Archives file WO218/26.
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/36.
Westminster Abbey Commando Roll of Honour file ref. National Archives file DEFE/2/843.
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