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{{Personnel
|Surname and forenames=Briscoe Francis Henry
|Army number=4036771
|Rank=Private.
|Unit=Attested 15/2/40 at Shrewsbury for the King's Shropshire Light Infantry.  Posted to the King's Shropshire Light Infantry Infantry Training Centre.  Transferred to The Durham Light Infantry 27/6/40.  Posted to the 10th Battalion DLI.  Served Iceland 12/9/1940 - 4/1/1942.  Served Normandy 11/6/1944 - 2/3/1945.  Posted 6th Battalion DLI 28/8/1944 on the disbanding of the 10th Battalion.  Posted to X II List 24/10/1944.  Posted to 46 Reinforcement Holding Unit 26/11/1944.  Posted X II List 13/12/1944.  Posted Y List A 3/3/1945.  Posted to the 4th Holding Battalion DLI 19/5/1945. Posted Y List B 8/8/1945.  Posted 4th Battalion DLI 22/10/1945.  Posted to Draft RPAPG 5/12/1945. Posted to Y (H) A 7/12/1945.  Posted to 1st Battalion DLI 23/12/1945.  Served CHF 5/12/1945 - 31/3/1946.  Served Middle East Forces 1/4/1945 to 6/5/1946.  Posted to Y List 7 7/5/1946 - on release leave.  Relegated to the Class Z Army Reserve 31/7/1946 and struck off Y List.  Relegated to the Z(T) Reserve 1/8/1946.  Demobilised.   Discharged from the Reserve 30/6/1959 .
|Joined Brigade=27-Jun-40 on being posted to the 10th Battalion.
|Source table=10DLI
|Decorations=None known beyond standard Service Awards, including the France and Germany Star.  was, however, awarded a Good Conduct Certificate by the Commander in Chief
|Date of birth=Born 26/11/1919 at Madeley, Wellington, Salop.
|Age=Aged 68 at the time of his death.
|Company/Battery=Not yet known.
|Platoon or other sub-unit=Not yet known.
|Task or role=Probably Rifleman.
|Promotions=Appointed Unpaid Lance Corporal 19/9/1944.  Appointed Paid Lance Corporal 19/9/1944.Relinquished appointment on posting to X List II 24/10/1944.
|Wounded=Not so far as is known.
|Prisoner of War=Not as far as is known.
|Died/Killed in action=Died 5/10/1988 - aged 68.  Buried in Drove Road Cemetery, Biggleswade.
|Home address=Worked as a Sanitary Pipe Maker before enlistment.  Father - Francis Briscoe (1896 - 1976).  Mother - Kate Arthur Rickers (1895 - 1978).  Address on enlistment 35, Portley Road, Dawley, Salop.  Married Betty Doreen Carter 26/2/1944 at Biggleswade, Bedfordshire.  Lived at 125 Hitchin Street, Biggleswade.
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Thanks are due to researcher Tom Tunney for supplying much of the information for this Page.