WELCH, Frederick Edward
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Rank:
Private
Unit / Base:
'Commando Basic Training Centre'
Prior Police Service:
Metropolitan Police Force
Regiment/Corps:
The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)
Service:
Army
Number:
14604147
Born:
Sunday, March 19, 1916
Died :
Tuesday, September 14, 1943
Died on war service
Died in the UK
Age:
27
Cemetery/Memorial:
Local Roll of Honour:
Private Frederick Welch died at the Military Hospital, Onich, of multiple gunshot wounds.
Son of Frederick John and Alice Jane Welch; husband of Phyllis Margaret Welch, of Mitcham.
Occupation on Register of Deaths is Police Officer. Frederick Edward Welch, warrant number 125936, joined the Metropolitan Police on 26 April 1937, and left on 14 Sept 1943 (died).
In 1939 he was Metroplitan Police Constable 262G and based or residing at The Metropolitan Police Convalescant Depot, Chigwell Hall, High Rd., Chigwell.
Joined HM Armed Forces 19 May 1943.
Sources
CWGC.
Casualty Lists / National Archives files WO417/66 and WO417/67.
Register of Deaths in the district of Ballachulish via www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk.
CWGC.
Casualty Lists / National Archives files WO417/66 and WO417/67.
Register of Deaths in the district of Ballachulish via www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk.
Register of leavers from the Metropolitan Police / National Archives file MEPO 4/350/227.
The 1939 Register covering Chigwell.
Tony Moore, FRHistS and Police Historian.
Notes
His name is on the Westminster Abbey Commando ROH with his unit as CBTC. He is not listed as a Commando on the CWGC database.
Primary Roll of Honour:
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