CORNISH, Arthur Henry
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Rank:
Colour Sergeant
Unit / Base:
40RM Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Marines
Service:
Royal Navy
Service Number:
CH/X 1013
Born:
Thursday, November 23, 1916
Birthplace:
Canterbury, Kent
Died :
Monday, July 12, 1943
Killed in action or died of wounds
Age:
26
Cemetery/Memorial:
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Colour Sergeant Arthur Cornish died of wounds on 12 July 1943 on board H.M.H.S. St. David and was buried at sea. He had received a gunshot wound to his spine on 10 July 1943 during operations at Sicily. Son of Arthur and Ethel Rose Cornish, of Leytonstone, London.
Sources
CWGC.
CWGC.
RN/RM Casualty Logs 1939-45.
Registers of Reports of Deaths - Naval Ratings / National Archives file ADM104/129.
Registers of Births in Kent Oct/Nov/Dec.1916.
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