HAYDON, Peter Hillyard
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Rank:
Captain
Unit / Base:
41RM Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Marines
Service:
Royal Navy
Honours & Awards:
Died :
Sunday, November 5, 1944
Killed in action or died of wounds
Age:
21
Cemetery/Memorial:
Local Roll of Honour:
Captain Peter Haydon DSO from Penzance was killed during operations at Walcheren. Son of Rollo Hillyard Stafford Haydon and Annie Gwendoline Haydon, of Equador.
Commissioned 17th April 1943. Promoted Acting Temporary Lieutenant 14 June 1943. Lieutenant Peter Haydon received the Distinguished Service Order for conspicuous gallantry and leadership in driving off repeated attacks by the enemy on the road from Salerno to Naples in September 1943, though he was wounded and his men outnumbered by the enemy.
Source
CWGC.
2nd Lieut - London Gazette 35998, page 1958.
Lieut -London Gazette 36069, page 2901.
DSO - London Gazette 36367, page 687 and WO373/47/143.
[Images] Simmonds/Haydon Family.
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Photo of grave in Gallery:
Yes
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