Delaney John James W/Lt 268954
Personnel Entry
Name Delaney James John
Army number 268954
Rank War Substantive Lieutenant.
Decorations Military Cross - gazetted 31/8/1944, Mentioned in Despatches - gazetted 31/8/1944. Legion d'honneur 2016.
Date of birth Born 22/1/1919 in Sunderland. Mother's maiden name Forbes.
Age 97 at the time of his death.
Unit Joined The Durham Light Infantry - Emergency Commission as 2/Lt 27/3/43. Posted 10th Battalion DLI 28/4/1943, (Some returns, and his Gallantry Citation, show number as 268953). Short Service Commission as Lt 27/9/1943. Served Normandy. Wounded 28/6/1944. Regular Army Reserve of Officers 12/10/1952. Class 3 1/11/1954. Commission 1/7/1959.
Company/Battery D Company, HQ Company.
Platoon or other sub-unit
Task or role Rifle Platoon Commander, Battalion Signals Officer.
Joined Brigade 28-Apr-43
Promotions W/S Lt 27/9/43. T/Captain 28/10/45. Captain 27/3/49.
Wounded Yes - 28/6/1944. Understood to have been wounded a second time - details not yet known.
Prisoner of War
Died/Killed in action Date of death 3/9/2016.
Home address Son of James Delaney (shipyard labourer. Died of wounds 26/3/1919 sustained while serving with the Green Howards.) and Jennie Forbes. Resident of Sunderland in 1944. Married - firstly - Charlotte Ellen May Stoneham - born 15/1/1910 - divorced around 1960. Married - secondly - Denise Elizabeth Grace Pigott (nee Erskine) on 9/2/1966 in Westminster. She died in 1979, aged 55. Maried - thirdly - Elizabeth in 1986.
Source table 10DLI
