ESSON, Donald Frederick
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Known as:
Don
Rank:
Captain
Unit / Base:
43RM Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Marines
Service:
Royal Navy
Honours & Awards:
Born:
Monday, August 13, 1923
Died :
Wednesday, October 2, 1991
Age:
68
Educated at Wellingborough Grammar School. Post war graduated B.Sc. Engineering at London University. Married Delia Snaith, March 1952.
07.08.1942 Temp. Second Lieutenant, RM Forces.
07.08.1944 Temp. Lieutenant joined 43RM Commando at Vis, posted 'D' Troop.
10/1944 Temp. Lieutenant 43RM Commando.
07/1945 Acting Captain 2 Commando Brigade.
1986 Dep.County Surveyor, Northumberland County Council, appointed M.B.E.(Civil Division).
Member of the Commando Association residing Newcastle.
Sources
Peterborough Evening Telegraph 28 March 1952, p10.
Commission - London Gazette 35676, p3662.
List of 43RM Cdo. Officer reinforcements on Vis 7th Aug.1944 in gallery.
Navy Lists Oct'1944 and Quarterly July 1945
MBE - London Gazette 50551, page 12.
Obituaries in Commando Association newsletter 94 (1992) (rank shown as Major).
[Image] Report on award in the Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph, 29 November 1986, p7.
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