CORK, Alfred James

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Rank: 
Sergeant
Unit / Base: 
3 Commando
Regiment/Corps: 
Devonshire Regiment
Service: 
Army
Service Number: 
5614500
Died : 
Sunday, December 28, 1941
Killed in action or died of wounds
Age: 
34
Cemetery/Memorial: 
Dorset, Poole Cemetery
Operations: 
'Vaagso - Operation Archery'

Sergeant Alfred Cork died on H.M.H.S. Vasna, from multiple gun shot wounds received during operations at Vaagso, Norway. Son of Alfred James Cork and Jessie Cork, of Poole; husband of Iris Veronica Daphne Cork, of Poole.

Sources
CWGC.
RN Casualty Logs 1939-1945 / ref. RN Museum 2005/38/1/6.

Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/36.
ROH in Commando-Memoirs of a Fighting Commando in WW2 by Brig Durnford-Slater.

Primary Roll of Honour: 
3 Commando Roll of Honour
Archive pages : 
No 3 Commando

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