ROSSON, Horace Walter George
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Rank:
Marine
Unit / Base:
'RM Engineer Commando'
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Marines
Service:
Royal Navy
Service Number:
CH/X 104901
Born:
Sunday, June 26, 1921
Birthplace:
Dunstable, Bedfordshire
Died :
Tuesday, June 6, 1944
Killed in action or died of wounds
Age:
22
Cemetery/Memorial:
Marine Horace Rosson attached to LCOCU 10 was killed in action on DDay during operations at Normandy.
Sources
[1] CWGC.
[2] RM Engineer Commando War Diary, Casualties 6 June 1944, ref DEF 2/49.
[2a] Registers Of Reports Of Deaths: Naval Ratings / National Archives file ADM 104/136.
[3] Report in the Dunstable Gazette, p 7, under "From our Files" dated 29 June 1994 (below)
Notes
Source 1 lists unit as R.M. Engineer Commando (Naval Party 1562).
Sources [2][2a] list unit as LCOCU 10, and [2a] additionally adds Naval Party 1562, Force 'E'.
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