DEWHURST, Francis Joseph

Rank: 
Marine
Unit / Base: 
48RM Commando
Regiment/Corps: 
Royal Marines
Service: 
Royal Navy
Number: 
PLY/X109309
Born: 
Friday, March 6, 1925
Birthplace: 
Preston, Lancashire
Died : 
Tuesday, June 6, 1944
Killed in action or died of wounds
Age: 
19
Cemetery/Memorial: 
Marine Francis Dewhurst died during operations at Normandy, France.

A former pupil of the English Martyrs School in Preston, Francis enlisted aged 17 and had served in Africa and Sicily.

Sources
CWGC.
Registers of Reports of Deaths - Naval Ratings / National Archives file ADM 104/129.
Article in the Lancashire Evening Post 17 June 1944.
 
Primary Roll of Honour: 

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