WEEKES, Sydney George Douglas
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Rank:
Fusilier
Unit / Base:
1 Commando
Prior Police Service:
Metropolitan Police
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
Service:
Army
Number:
6482277
Born:
Sunday, August 5, 1917
Died :
Tuesday, December 1, 1942
Killed in action or died of wounds
Age:
25
Cemetery/Memorial:
Operations:
Fusilier Sydney Weekes was killed in action during operations at Bizerte, Tunisia, and has no known grave. Son of Edward and Emma Weekes; husband of Muriel Hartnoll Weeks, of Stoke Newington, London.
Sydney George Douglas Weekes, police warrant number 127463, joined the Metropolitan Police on 9 Jan 1939, and left on 1 Dec 1942 (died). Last posted to N Division as a PC. In 1939 he was at Stoke Newington Police Station. He volunteered for the Commandos as part of the 1st Police Intake of 1942.
Sources
CWGC.
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/56.
Register of leavers from the Metropolitan Police / National Archives file MEPO 4/350/212.
The 1939 Register covering Stoke Newington including the Police Station.
England & Wales Government Probate Death Index.
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