View source for Treece George Edward Lionel Gunner 11430384

{{personnel
|Surname and forenames=Treece George Edward Lionel
|Army number=11430384.
|Rank=Gunner.
|Decorations=None known beyond Service Awards
|Date of birth=29/1/1907.
|Age=91 at the time of his death.
|Unit=Called up 18/6/1942 and enlisted in the General Staff Corps.  Underwent Basic Training at a Preliminary Training Centre.  Transferred to the Royal Artillery.  Posted to a Training Regiment - details not yet available.  Various postings yet to be identified.  Posted to the Royal Artillery Depot 19/3/1944.  Posted to 54 Regimental Holding Unit 11/5/1944.  Served Normandy.  Posted to 185th Field Regiment 3/7/1944.  Posted to 46 Regimental Holding Unit 21/12/1944.  Posted to 31 Regimental Holding Unit 2/1/1945.  Posted to 1st Mountain Regiment 13/5/1945.  Served North West Europe.  Posted to Draft RABJA 6/11/1945.  Posted to 46 Regimental Holding Unit 7/11/1945.  Posted to 76th Field Regiment 15/11/1945.  Y Release 7/6/1946 - documents processed at York MDU 8/6/1946.  Relegated to the ZT Reserve 1/9/1946.  Demobilised.  Discharged from the Reserve as Overage 1954.
|Platoon or other sub-unit=Not yet known.
|Task or role=Probably Gunner.
|Joined Brigade=Not yet known.
|Promotions=None known.
|Wounded=Not so far as is known.
|Prisoner of War=Not so far as is known.
|Died/Killed in action=Died 19/4/1998 at Holland Road Nursing Home.
|Home address=Lived at Albert Street, Whittington, Chesterfield, and later at Webster Croft, Whittington.   Married Ida Hudson 14/2/1931.  Keen gardener and allotment holder, winning local trophies.  Worked at Spun Pipe Plant, Staveley Works until his retirement.
}}

Some of the above information has been extracted from the RA Tracer Card held by Ancestry.co.uk.  Thanks are due to George's grandsons for additional information.