AYTON, Philip Atterbury
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Rank:
Captain
Unit / Base:
'Special Boat Section'
Regiment/Corps:
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Service:
Army
Number:
184637
Honours & Awards:
Died :
Sunday, December 26, 1943
Killed in action or died of wounds
Age:
22
Cemetery/Memorial:
Captain Philip Ayton, 2 SBS, was severely wounded when he stepped on a landmine during a raid on the Channel Islands. He was evacuated to the UK but later died of his wounds. Posthumous Mention in Despatches.
Son of Sydney Harry and Elsie Alice Ayton, of Eastbourne, Sussex.
Commissioned Second Lieutenant 26 April 1941. Joined 2 Special Boat Section April 1942.
Sources
CWGC.
MiD - London Gazette 36637, page 3606.
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/5.
Commission - London Gazette 35157, page 2657.
2 SBS Timeline (Linked Content below).
'SBS in World War 2', author G.B. Courtney.
[Image] CVA Gallery.
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