MAYBURY, John
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Rank:
Corporal
Unit / Base:
4 Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Grenadier Guards
Service:
Army
Number:
2621526
Died :
Thursday, January 18, 1945
Age:
24
Cemetery/Memorial:
Operations:
Corporal John Maybury, 2 troop, was shot and killed during Operations Intemperate 1 and 2, against the German occupied island of Schouwen, Holland [1][2][3].
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June 1944 (Lance Corporal) (No.4 Commando) wounded at Normandy [4].
- Major James Dunning, No.4 Cdo and CBTC, later described him as "an ex-guardsman and one of the Commando's star footballers, who had been with the unit from its earliest days" [3].
Sources
[1] CWGC.
[2] Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/88.
[3] The Fighting Fourth, author Maj. James Dunning.
[4] Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/76.
Operation details from No 4 Cdo War Diary/Report by Capt. K. Wright No 4 Cdo. Iintelligence Officer.
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Photo of grave in Gallery:
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