TOWSE, Alfred Burley
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Known as:
Jock
Rank:
Lance Sergeant
Unit / Base:
12 Commando
6 Commando
Prior Police Service:
Hove Borough Police Force
Regiment/Corps:
Scots Guards
Service:
Army
Number:
14241859
Born:
Wednesday, February 20, 1918
Died:
1986
Corporal Alfred Towse served in No.12 Commando before joining No.6 Commando. He was wounded in France on 7 August 1944. Alfred Towse joined the Hove Borough Police Force on 5 July 1939. In 1942 he volunteered for the Commandos as part of the Police Intakes to the Commando Depot (Commando Basic Training Centre), Achnacarry. Post war he resumed his Police duties with the East Sussex Police on 1 July 1947 and was a member of the Commando Association.
Sources
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/80.
Commando Association newsletter 29 issued September 1959.
Obituaries in Commando Association newsletter 84 issued March 1987.
Register of Deaths in Hove Sussex 1986.
Police service - Tony Moore FRHistS and police historian.
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