Gregg Harold Desmond 2/Lt 296584

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Name Gregg Harold Desmond
Army number 296584
Rank 2/Lt
Decorations
Date of birth 1920 Belfast.
Age 0
Unit Royal Artillery - Emergency Commission as 2/Lt 22/10/1943. Trf Durham Light Infantry 22/1/1944 under authority WOPL No 557 dated 14/1/1944, Posted 10th Bn DLI. Served Normandy. Wounded 28/6/1944. Unemployed List 1946.
Company/Battery
Platoon or other sub-unit
Task or role
Joined Brigade 22-Jan-44
Promotions W/S Lt 22/4/1944
Wounded 28/6/1944
Prisoner of War
Died/Killed in action January 2011, Belfast.
Home address Educated Royal Belfast Academical Institution (1932-1936). Research indicates that Lt Gregg married Lily M Watts in Q2 1943, Dorchester.
Source table 10DLI


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