ADDICOTT, Horace Lindsey
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Known as:
Len
Rank:
Trooper
Unit / Base:
50ME Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Warwickshire Yeomanry, Royal Armoured Corps
Service:
Army
Number:
322200
Born:
Tuesday, March 3, 1914
Died :
Sunday, February 22, 1987
Age:
72
25-28 February 1941 escaped after Operation Abstention at Kastellorizo.
24 October 1942 wounded Middle East.
Post war member of the Commando Association residing Kingstanding, Birmingham.
Member of the former Middle East Commando Historical Research Group (MECHRG).
Sources
50 Me Cdo Casualty List 25th-28th Feb. 1941 in Crete (War Office Oct 1941) Ref. National Archives /WO361/124 (above shows service no. 322210).
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/54 (shows service no. 322200)..
Obituaries in Commando Association newsletter 88 (1989) (surname erroneously shown as Addicroft).
England & Wales Government Probate Death Index, Birmingham Registry, probate 5 May 1987.
Registers of Deaths, Birmingham District, Warwickshire, 1987, Reg.287, vol.32, p1413.
The Middle East Commandos, author Michael Messenger, page 46, and appdx.V1.
Birmingham Weekly Mercury 22 August 1993, p18 (below).
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