WHITTLES, Graham
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Rank:
Private
Unit / Base:
3 Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Middlesex Regiment
Service:
Army
Service Number:
14337435
Died :
Friday, July 14, 1944
Killed in action or died of wounds
Age:
20
Cemetery/Memorial:
Operations:
Private Graham Whittles died during operations at Normandy in the area of Chateau d'Amfreville. Son of Noel and Lillian M. Whittles, of Withington, Manchester.
No. 3 Commando War Diary
14 July 1944 Chateau D'Amfreville
2310hrs - Intelligence Officer returns from 4 Troop patrol area. Patrol was withdrawn after evacuation of casualties. Enemy position mortared by Captain Pollard to finish withdrawal. Tpr Whittles killed, Lt Weedon, L/S McDonald, and Tpr Barlow wounded.
15 July 1944 Charteau d'Amfreville
1215hrs - Burial of Tpr Whittles in garden at Chateau d'Amfreville.
Sources
CWGC.
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/79.
ROH in Commando-Memoirs of a Fighting Commando in WW2 by Brig Durnford-Slater.
Pegasus Archive website.
[Image] His nephew David Burrows.
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