CHILD, Alfred Robert
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Rank:
Bombardier
Unit / Base:
7 Commando
'Special Boat Section'
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Artillery
Service:
Army
Number:
915218
Died :
Tuesday, January 20, 1942
Killed in action or died of wounds
Age:
25
Cemetery/Memorial:
Bombardier Alfred Child was reported missing presumed killed in action at sea. Son of Charlie and Annie Child; husband of P. M. Child, of Moredon, Wiltshire.
Bombardier Child and Lance Corporal Clive Severn, both attached to 1 Special Boat Section, were on board the submarine HMS Triumph with which all contact was lost in the Aegean Sea during January 1942. There were no survivors.
Sources
CWGC.
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/50.
Website hmstriumph1942.com
The book SBS in WW2, author G.B. Courtney
Forum message with more [view....].
[Image] His grandson Brian Child.
Notes
- The CWGC record him as No. 7 Commando.
- The RA Casualty card for Bdr Child shows Norway as the area of his death.
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