View source for Banks George L/Cpl 4451922

{{Personnel
|id=2169
|Surname and forenames=Banks George
|Army number=4451922
|Rank=Lance Corporal.
|Date of birth=Born County Durham, probably 1920/21.
|Age=23 at the time of his death.
|Unit=Enlisted in The Durham Light Infantry, no enlistment date as yet, but his number suggests 1938 or early 1939. Posted ? 6th Battalion.  Posted 10th Battalion DLI - possibly 1/9/1939.  Served with the B.E.F. in Northern France?  Served Iceland?.  Served Normandy. Reported missing  19/8/1944.  Reported missing, now presumed killed in action 19/8/1944.  KILLED in ACTION 19/8/44  with 10th Bn Durham Light Infantry.
{{personnel
|Decorations=None known beyond Service Awards.
|Company/Battery=Company not yet known.
|Platoon or other sub-unit=Not yet known.
|Task or role=Not known but probably Rifleman.
|Joined Brigade=Possibly 1/9/1939.
|Promotions=None known beyond Lance Corporal.
|Wounded=Reported wounded July 1944.
|Prisoner of War=Not so far as is known.
|Died/Killed in action=19-Aug-44.  No known grave.  Commemorated Panel 17, Column 1, Bayeux Memorial.
|Home address=Resident of County Durham.  Son of Joseph and Bessie Banks, husband of Sheila Banks, West Auckland.  
|Source table=10DLI
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