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{{Personnel
|Surname and forenames=France Bertram Cecil
|Army number=271488
|Rank=Lieutenant.
|Decorations=None known so far.
|Date of birth=16/9/1921 at Bridgnorth, Shropshire.
|Age=70 at the time of his death.
|Unit=Joined the Royal Artillery - granted an Emergency Commission as a 2/Lt 17/4/1943.  Transferred to the King's Shropshire Light Infantry 23/1/1944 as a W/S Lt.  Posted 32 RSU.  Served Normandy.  Transferred to The Durham Light Infantry 2/7/1944 and posted to the 11th Bn DLI.  With the Battalion on disbandment 26/8/1944.  Posted 7th Green Howards.  RARO (SSC) to be Captain, retaining seniority 5/9/1955. 
|Company/Battery=A Company.
|Task or role=Platoon Commander.
|Joined Brigade=02-Jul-44.
|Promotions=W/S Lt 17/10/1943.
|Wounded=Yes - while with Green Howards - date not yet known.
|Died/Killed in action=Died 26/03/1992 at Whitchurch, Shropshire.
|Home address=Son of George Thomas France (1884 - 1971) and Mary Grace Broom (1885 - 1960).  At the time of the 1939 General Register he was living with his family at Grove House in Bridgnorth and was looking for his first job.
|Source table=11DLI
}}