NEEDLER, Jack

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Rank: 
Private (later Corporal)
Unit / Base: 
6 Commando
Regiment/Corps: 
Royal Norfolk Regiment 2nd Bn.
Service: 
Army
Number: 
5776759
Born: 
Saturday, February 1, 1919
Died : 
Friday, September 20, 1946
Died in service
Age: 
27
Cemetery/Memorial: 
Yorkshire East, Eastern Cemetery Preston Road, Hull
Corporal Jack Needler, formerly attached to No.6 Commando until disbanded, died at Barossa Barracks Aldershot from a self inflicted gunshot wound. Son of Arthur Appleby Needler and Lizzie Mabel Beatrice Needler, of Hull.

19 October 1939 enlisted at Hull. 
Volunteered for Commandos and served in HQ Troop Intelligence Section 6 Commando.
20 August 1944 (Private) (No.6 Commando) wounded North West Europe *.

Sources
CWGC
Certified copy of Death Certificate issued in the sub district of Aldershot.
Army Book AB64 published on website WW2 Talk.
*Casualty Lists 1939-45 / National Archives file WO417/81.
 
Photo of grave in Gallery: 
Yes
Archive pages : 
No 6 Commando

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