ORMESHER, George
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Rank:
Corporal
Unit / Base:
5 Commando
Regiment/Corps:
East Lancashire Regiment
Service:
Army
Number:
3384980
Born:
Saturday, April 25, 1914
Birthplace:
Blackburn, Lancashire
Died :
Friday, September 11, 1942
Killed in action or died of wounds
Age:
28
Cemetery/Memorial:
Operations:
George Ormesher, a Miner from Blackburn, enlisted into the East Lancashire Regiment on 12 February 1933. During the war he volunteered for special service and was attached to No.5 Commando. Corporal Ormesher was wounded in Madagascar and subsequently died of his wounds on board the hospital ship H.M.H.S. Vasna. Buried at sea. Remembered on the East Africa Memorial, Kenya. Son of Margaret Ormesher from Blackburn.
Sources
CWGC primary entry and CWGC Memorial History.
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/50.
CWGC primary entry and CWGC Memorial History.
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/50.
General Register Office Marine Death Indices 1942 ref. DMR3, page 194, line 81.
Armed Forces And Overseas Deaths And Burials - Deaths at Sea / National Archives ref. BT 334 Box 0097.
[Image and Army Service Book 64] His nephew Tony Brodest.
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