FEACEY, James Richard
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Rank:
Major
Unit / Base:
47RM Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Marines
Service:
Royal Navy
Died :
Tuesday, June 6, 1944
Killed in action or died of wounds
Cemetery/Memorial:
Major James Richard Feacey, 'Q' Troop, died during operations at Normandy, France.
Additionally remembered on a memorial gravestone at Paines Lane Cemetery, Pinner, Harrow.
Educated John Lyons School, Harrow.
47RM Medical Officer John Forfar MC later wrote "First to be hit was an LCA carrying half of Q troop. While still far out from the shore it was suddenly seen to be listing and sinking, hit probably by a shell. Men were jumping into the water: others were not doing so. The Troop Commander Major Feacey and eleven others, including the troop medical orderly L/Cpl Chatfield, had been killed or drowned and fourteen including the adjutant were wounded – 26 out of the LCA’s 36 occupants".
Sources
CWGC.
Forfar, 47RM Commando From Omaha to the Scheldt, p.61 (Kindle).
IWM War Memorial Register ref. 92662.
Roll of Honour, Harrow Observer 6 June 1946, p2.
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