CARLILE, Joseph Henry
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Known as:
Harry
Rank:
Staff Sergeant (local S.Q.M.S.)
Unit / Base:
Special Service (Commando) Group, Brigade, and Brigade Signals
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Army Service Corps
Service:
Army
Service Number:
S/59997
Service Record:
WO422 / Apv001598241
Born:
Wednesday, December 22, 1915
Birthplace:
Wallasey, Cheshire.
Service Record
08.05.1936 - attested at Birkinhead into the R.A.S.C. Trade on enlistment Cotton Clerk.
08.05.1936 - attested at Birkinhead into the R.A.S.C. Trade on enlistment Cotton Clerk.
25.08.1939 - embodied.
16.11.1940 - Sergeant, posted HQ Special Service Brigade at Southampton.
Served in the UK at Castle Douglas, Theale, and Inveraray.
Served in the UK at Castle Douglas, Theale, and Inveraray.
28.10.1941 - married Beryl Elaine Owen at St. James Church, New Brighton.
02.06.1943 - Acting Warrant Officer II, awarded British Empire Medal.
10.07.1943 - HQ Special Service Brigade, embarked for Sicily.
15/09/1943 - posted 2 Special Service Brigade.
15.12.1944 - 2 Special Service Brigade redesignated 2 Commando Brigade.
31.03.1945 - HQ 2 Commando Brigade, wounded Italy (battle casualty).
26.06.1945 - disembarked UK.
20.11.1945 - posted Holding Operational Commando.
21.02.1946 - released to Reserve List.
23.05.1946 - Mentioned in Dispatches for gallant and distinguished service Mediterranean.
Post war member of the Commando Association resided Edgwater, Western Australia.
Sources
Service Record / Ancestry.
B.E.M: London Gazette 36063, page 2440.
MiD: London Gazette 37575, page 2471.
Obituaries in Commando Association newsletter 86 (1988).
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