SHENTON, Joseph

Rank: 
Private
Unit / Base: 
9 Commando
Regiment/Corps: 
King's Shropshire Light Infantry
Service: 
Army
Number: 
5046468
Died : 
Saturday, March 28, 1942
Killed in action or died of wounds
Age: 
29
Cemetery/Memorial: 
Private Joseph Shenton was reported missing 28 March 1942 after Operation Chariot at St Nazaire, later presumed killed in action at sea. He embarked for the raid on motor launch ML 268 and has no known grave. Son of Joseph Shenton and of Violet Shenton, of Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent; husband of Nora Shenton, of Bucknall, Stoke-on-Trent.
 
Sources
CWGC.
Casualty Lists / National Archives files WO417/43 (1942) and WO417/58 (1943).
St Nazaire Society website.
 
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