ROBERTS, Richard Gordon

Rank: 
Lance Corporal (later Second Lieutenant)
Unit / Base: 
2 Independent Company
Regiment/Corps: 
Royal Engineers
Service: 
Army
Number: 
839459
361142
1934 - 1936 served Royal Artillery.
9 May 1939 re-enlisted Royal Engineers.
26 April 1940 attached No.2 Independent Company.
22 May 1940 wounded during operations at Bodo, Norway (Scissors Force) after which returned to the Royal Engineers.
21 April 1945 commissioned Second Lieutenant, Royal Welsh Fusiliers.
 
Sources
Royal Artillery Attestation Registers 1934.
Royal Engineers Tracer Card.
No.2 Independent Commando War Diary - Nominal Roll of Casualties at Bodo.
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/13.
London Gazette 37092, page 2657.
 

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