BALLANTYNE, George

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Rank: 
Lance Corporal
Unit / Base: 
42RM Commando
Police Service: 
West Lothian Constabulary
Regiment/Corps: 
Royal Marines
Service: 
Royal Navy
Number: 
PO/X 114916
Born: 
Friday, March 19, 1920
Birthplace: 
Johnstone, Renfrewshire
Died : 
Wednesday, January 31, 1945
Killed in action or died of wounds
Age: 
24
Cemetery/Memorial: 
Taukkyan War Cemetery, Myanmar
Lance Corporal George Ballantyne died during operations at Kangaw, Burma. Son of James and Elizabeth Ballantyne; husband of Annie McNeil Fotheringham Ballantyne, of Bo'ness, West Lothian.
George was a Police Officer who joined the West Lothian Constabulary on 3 January 1940. He volunteered for the Commandos and was part of the 1942 Police Intakes to the Commando Depot (Commando Basic Training Centre), Achnacarry. His name is amongst those on a West Lothian Constabulary ROH tablet currently located on the north exterior wall of the former Linlithgow Police Station, Court Square, West Lothian.  
 
Sources
[1] CWGC.
[2] Registers of Reports of Deaths - Naval Ratings / National Archives file ADM 104/127.
[3] 3 Commando Brigade Jungle Book issue 9 [see Linked Content below].
[4] IWM War Memorial Register ref WMR-53637.
[5] Tony Moore, FRHistS and Police Historian.
[Image below] Report in the Linlithgowshire Gazette 16 February 1945.
 
Notes
Sources [1] and [2] erroneously show his unit as 43RM Commando who were not operating in this theatre of war. Source [3] records him on the ROH for 42RM Commando.
 
Primary Roll of Honour: 
42RM Commando Roll of Honour
Linked content: 
3 Cdo Bde Third Jungle Book issue 9
Archive pages : 
42RM Commando

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