PRITCHARD, Wilfred Prestley
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Rank:
Gunner
Unit / Base:
3 Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Artillery
Service:
Army
Service Number:
1462653
Died :
Saturday, January 17, 1942
Killed in action or died of wounds
Age:
21
Cemetery/Memorial:
Operations:
Gunner Wilfred Pritchard, from Bedford, died on 17 January 1942 of wounds inflicted on 27 December 1941 during operations at Vaagso, Norway. Son of Wilfrid P. Pritchard and Edith Annie Pritchard; husband of Betty Jane Matheson Pritchard, of Bedford.
Sources
CWGC.
CWGC.
Casualty Lists / National Archives files WO417/36 and WO417/38.
Royal Artillery Attestation Register for 1938.
Royal Artillery Casualty Card.
ROH in Commando-Memoirs of a Fighting Commando in WW2 by Brig Durnford-Slater.
ROH in Commando-Memoirs of a Fighting Commando in WW2 by Brig Durnford-Slater.
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