DAVID, Gordon Percy
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Rank:
Trooper
Unit / Base:
2 Commando
Prior Police Service:
Frome, Somerset Constabulary
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Armoured Corps
Service:
Army
Number:
14241820
Born:
Friday, November 15, 1918
Died :
Sunday, March 15, 2015
Age:
96
Trooper Gordon David was wounded on 14 September 1943 during operations at Salerno, Italy. A serving Police Officer from Frome, Somerset, he volunteered for the Commandos as part of one of the Police Intakes.
Sources
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/68.
Handwritten list of names of No.2 Commando ( Mrs Desiree Roderick MBE).
The 1939 Register covering Frome.
Registers of Deaths in Somerset.
Article in the Somerset Standard 24 July 1942.
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