DODSWORTH, Bryan Leonard Charles

Rank: 
Lieutenant (Temporary Captain)
Unit / Base: 
Combined Operations Bombardment Units
47RM Commando
Regiment/Corps: 
Royal Artillery
Service: 
Army
Number: 
187176
Honours & Awards: 
Born: 
Tuesday, May 11, 1920
Birthplace: 
York
Died : 
Friday, June 26, 2009
Age: 
89
17 May 1941 O.C.T.U. commissioned Second Lieutenant. 
Temporary Captain, 3 Combined Operations Bombardment Unit (C.O.B.U.), awarded the Military Cross for gallant and distinguished service in June and July 1944 at Normandy, France. October 1944 attached 47RM Commando for Operation Infatuate, Walcheren.
 
Sources
OCTU - London Gazette 35175, page 3078.
MC - London Gazette 36917, page 678 and National Archives file WO373/50/487.
Obituary in the Daily Telegraph.
 

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