TERRY, John Leslie
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Rank:
Lance Corporal
Unit / Base:
8 Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Grenadier Guards
Service:
Army
Service Number:
2617532
Died :
Thursday, August 29, 1940
Died on war service
Died in the UK
Age:
22
Cemetery/Memorial:
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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