WORMLEY, Wilfrid John

Rank: 
Corporal
Unit / Base: 
3 Commando
Prior Police Service: 
Metropolitan Police
Regiment/Corps: 
Royal Fusiliers
Service: 
Army
Number: 
6482257
Born: 
Tuesday, May 14, 1918
Died : 
Sunday, December 30, 1979
Place died: 
London SE8
Age: 
61
Corporal Wilfrid Wormley was wounded on 6 June 1944, and again on 13 June 1944, during operations at Normandy, France. He volunteered for the Commandos from the Police as part of the 1st Police Intake of 1942. Post war member of the Commando Association from Deptford.
Wilfrid John Wormley, police warrant number 128307, joined the Metropolitan Police on 4 Sept 1939, and left on 9 Oct 1945. Last posted to M Division as a PC. In 1939 he was single and serving as a Constable at the Police Station in Fortis Green, Haringey.
 
Sources
Casualty Lists / National Archives files WO417/77 (2 entries).
Register of leavers from the Metropolitan Police / National Archives file MEPO 4/351/16.
The 1939 Register covering Hornsey Borough.
Obituaries in Commando Association newsletter 71 (Sept. 1980).
Registers of Deaths in Greenwich, Vol.12, page 1335, registered Jan/Feb/March 1980
Government Probate Death Index, London, probate date 3 March 1980.
 

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