POOLEY, Conrad Frederick
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Known as:
Fred
Rank:
Private
Unit / Base:
4 Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Queen's Royal Regiment
Service:
Army
Number:
6103130
Born:
Wednesday, November 7, 1923
Died :
Monday, February 3, 1992
Place died:
Ely, Cambridgeshire
Age:
68
In 1939 Conrad Frederick Pooley aged 16, resided at 38 Beverley Road, Hornchurch, Essex, and was employed as a Butcher's Roundsman. Enlisted 2 September 1940. Later volunteered for the Commandos. Private Pooley, No.4 Commando, was wounded 6 June 1944 during the allied landings at Normandy, France. Evacuated to hospital in the UK.
Medically discharged 6 February 1945, King's Regulations, 1940, para. 390 (xvi) as "ceasing to fulfil Army physical requirements". Post war member of the Commando Association residing in Ely, Cambridgeshire.
Sources
Casualty lists / National Archives file WO417/76.
Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment), Enlistment Registers Book 26.
The 1939 Register covering Hornchurch, Essex.
Obituaries in Commando Association newsletter 94 (1992).
[Image 1] His grandson Joe Sanford- Pooley.
[Image 2] Report in the Chelmsford Chronicle 16 June 1944, page 12.
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