KILBRIDE, Joseph
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Rank:
Corporal
Unit / Base:
40RM Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Marines
Service:
Royal Navy
Service Number:
EX/3726
Born:
Thursday, December 20, 1917
Birthplace:
Bradford, Yorkshire
Died :
Monday, July 12, 1943
Killed in action or died of wounds
Age:
25
Cemetery/Memorial:
Corporal Joseph Kilbride died on board the Hospital Carrier St. David during operations at Sicily.
Sources
CWGC.
Registers of Reports of Deaths - Naval Ratings / National Archives file ADM 104/133.
CWGC.
Registers of Reports of Deaths - Naval Ratings / National Archives file ADM 104/133.
Notes
We have an image of a Signals Intelligence Unit [view] formed for the earlier raid at Dieppe which operated covertly on on this raid as a platoon of 40RM Commando. On that image Cpl Kilbride is named as a member of the unit and the image is annotated that he was later KIA. The unit was 10 Platoon 'X' Company [more...] under the command of Lieutenant H.O. Huntington-Whiteley [more...], their role to acquire signals intelligence documents from German Naval HQ at Dieppe.
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Photo of Commando in Gallery:
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