TERRY, John Leslie

Rank: 
Lance Corporal
Unit / Base: 
8 Commando
Regiment/Corps: 
Grenadier Guards
Service: 
Army
Number: 
2617532
Died : 
Thursday, August 29, 1940
Died on war service
Died in the UK
Age: 
22
Lance Corporal John Terry, 2 troop,  was accidentally killed by a locomotive during a night operations exercise. The Commando were based at Burnham on Crouch at the time. 
Son of Arthur M. Terry and Mary E. Terry, of Mapperley, Nottingham.
 
Sources
CWGC
No 8 Commando War Diary entry 29th August 1940.  National Archives WO/218.
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/17.
 
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