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{{Personnel
|Surname and forenames=Troupe George William
|Army number=180307
|Rank=Lt
|Date of birth=23/3/1921
|Age=73 at the time of his death.
|Unit=Joined The Durham Light Infantry - enlisted 8/7/1940 and served in the ranks.  Posted as Cadet to OCTU.  Granted an Emergency Commission in The Durham Light Infantry as a 2/Lt 29/3/1941.  Posted to the Brancepeth ITC.  Posted 14th Battalion DLI 9/9/1941.  Posted to the 11th Battalion DLI.  Posted 70th Brigade HQ as Liaison Officer 17/12/1943.  Served Normandy.  Unemployed list 1946.  TA - from Emergency Commission to be Captain 7/5/1951.  TARO 7/11/1955 Captain - retaining seniority.
|Company/Battery=14th Battalion - C Company, Recruit Company.  11th Battalion - D Company.  &0th Brigade HQ.
|Platoon or other Sub-Unit=11th Battalion - 18th Platoon.
|Task or role=14th Battalion - Duty Officer, Intelligence Officer.  11th Battalion - Duty Officer, 18th Platoon Commander.  Seconded to Staff 1/7/1951.
|Joined Brigade=Date not yet known but between Autumn 1941 and December 1943.
|Promotions=W/S Lt 29/9/1942, T/Captain 30/11/1945.
|Died/Killed in action=Died 23/12/1994 at Addiscombe, Croydon, Surrey.  Probate granted 10/2/1995.
|Home address=Son of George Robert Troupe, Pharmacist, of 89 Elwick Road, West Hartlepool.  Educated West Hartlepool Grammar School and Durham University.  Civil Servant - Economic Branch.  Resident of West Hartlepool in 1946.
|Source table=11DLI
}}