PROWSE, Alfred Charles
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Rank:
Lance Corporal
Unit / Base:
8 Commando
Independent Companies and Special Service Battalions
'Layforce'
Regiment/Corps:
Devonshire Regiment
Service:
Army
Number:
5620784
Died :
Thursday, June 12, 1941
Killed in action or died of wounds
Age:
20
Cemetery/Memorial:
Lance Corporal Alfred Prowse died during operations in Libya with 'B' Battalion Layforce. Son of Arthur and Mable Ellen Prowse of Sidmouth, Devon.
Sources
CWGC.
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/34.
Notes
The CWGC list his Unit as 4 Special Service Bn. This was a very short lived title re-designation of amongst others No.8 Commando and was no longer in use at the time of his death. Casualty Records list him as 4 SS Bn. attached 'B' Bn Layforce. This was formed of No 8 Commando.
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