ANSELL, Arthur James
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Rank:
Trooper
Unit / Base:
1 Commando
Prior Police Service:
Metropolitan Police
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Armoured Corps
Service:
Army
Number:
14241725
Born:
Thursday, December 13, 1917
Died :
Thursday, March 4, 1943
Killed in action or died of wounds
Age:
25
Cemetery/Memorial:
Arthur James Ansell, warrant number 126925, joined the Metropolitan Police on 7 June 1938. Last posted to 'N' Division as a Constable.
1939 married and serving at the Police Station, 12A Holmes Road, Kentish Town, London.
1942 volunteered for the Commandos joining the 2nd Police Intake Police at the Commando Depot ( Commando Basic Training Centre), Achnacarry.
4 March 1943 reported wounded, missing, and believed a prisoner of war during operations in North Africa, later presumed died of wounds. He has no known grave. Son of Alfred and May Ansell; husband of Eileen Dora Ansell, of Finchley, Middlesex.
Sources
CWGC.
Register of leavers from the Metropolitan Police / Ref. MEPO 4/350/238.
Casualty Lists / National Archives files WO417/58, WO417/59, WO417/
The 1939 Register covering Kentish Town, London.
The 1939 Register covering Kentish Town, London.
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