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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|Joined Brigade=January 1943 at Velindre.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|Joined Brigade=January 1943 at Velindre.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|Wounded=Hospitalised with damaged feet 1944 - missed Mezidon battle, Wounded 1945 at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gennep Gennep] with 5th Black Watch.  Hospitalised at Le Havre.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|Wounded=Hospitalised with damaged feet 1944 - missed Mezidon battle, Wounded 1945 at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gennep Gennep] with 5th Black Watch.  Hospitalised at Le Havre.  </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|Home address=Felixkirk Vicarage, Thirsk.  Father was Vicar.  Married.  Surviving Veteran as at 17th October 2014.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>|Home address=Felixkirk Vicarage, Thirsk.  Father was Vicar.  Married.  Surviving Veteran as at 17th October 2014.</div></td></tr>
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|id=1847<br />
|Surname and forenames=King John Sadgrove L'Ecuyer<br />
|Army number=14408917<br />
|Rank=Pte<br />
|Date of birth=4/10/1924<br />
|Age=0<br />
|Unit=Volunteered at age 18 in 1942, Enlisted at York into General Service Corps, Basic training at Queen's Barracks, Perth, Battle training at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinfauns_Castle Kinfauns Castle] - part of Demonstration Platoon, Trf Black Watch January 1943, Posted 1 TS - stationed at Velindre, Normandy, Rauray, Posted 5th Bn Black Watch August 1944 on disbandment of 1 TS, Trf Gordon Highlanders 5/9/45, Auth: Part II Order 5/117/45, GORHrs Book 358/14/211, (Book missing) Posted [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Highlanders#Second_World_War 2nd Bn Gordons]. En route for Far East 1945 and diverted to Algiers - part of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6th_Airborne_Division_(United_Kingdom) 6th Airborne Division]. War Office Selection Board, Cairo. Posted back to UK for OCTU at Alton Towers. Commissioned in Gordon Highlanders 30/11/1946 as number 373428. Training at Retford Barracks, Edinburgh. Discharged 1947.<br />
|Company/Battery=1 TS - D Company.<br />
|Platoon or other sub-unit=16 and 17 Platoons.<br />
|Task or role=1 TS - Rifleman, Platoon HQ - 2" Mortarman, 5th Black Watch - Section Commander, 2nd Gordons - Platoon Sergeant.<br />
|Joined Brigade=January 1943 at Velindre.<br />
|Promotions=L/Corporal just before landing in Normandy, Corporal, Sergeant on joining 2nd Gordons, 2/Lt on being Commissioned 30/11/1946.<br />
|Wounded=Hospitalised with damaged feet 1944 - missed Mezidon battle, Wounded 1945 at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gennep Gennep] with 5th Black Watch. Hospitalised at Le Havre. <br />
|Home address=Felixkirk Vicarage, Thirsk. Father was Vicar. Married. Surviving Veteran as at 17th October 2014.<br />
|Source table=1TS<br />
|Image Name=John KING.jpg<br />
|Image Title=Mr John King, October 2014<br />
}}<br />
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To see a film clips of 51st Division at Gennep click [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWQY8JyG9Cg here] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMApaEbS10U here].<br />
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To read an article on Alton Towers as an OCTU please click [http://www.altontowersmemories.net/page4.htm here].</div>
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