View source for Hoggard Kenneth 2/Lt 268955

{{Personnel
|Surname and forenames=Hoggard Kenneth
|Army number=268955
|Rank=2/Lt
|Decorations=M.C. Gazetted 19 October 1944 for services in N W Europe.
|Date of birth=1922 in Canada
|Age=22 at the time of his death.
|Unit=Posted as Cadet to 164 O.C.T.U.  Joined The Durham Light Infantry - commissioned as a 2/Lt 27/3/1943.  Posted to the 11th Battalion DLI 2/4/1943.  Served Normandy.  Wounded and transferred to  No 3 Casualty Clearing Station 27/6/1944.  DIED of WOUNDS with 11th Bn Durham Light Infantry 28/6/1944.
|Company/Battery=11th Battalion - A Company.
|Platoon or other Sub-Unit=A Company - 9th Platoon.
|Task or role=Duty Officer.  9th Platoon - Platoon Commander.
|Joined Brigade=02-Apr-43.
|Promotions=W/S Lt 27/9/1943.
|Wounded=27/6/1944.
|Died/Killed in action=DIED of WOUNDS 28-Jun-44.  Initially interred in Jerusalem Temporary Cemetery - Map 7F/1 reference 816.724 alongside other Divisional casualties.  Re-buried 21/2/1945 in Grave IV. B. 8. Tilly-sur-Seulles War Cemetery.  Headstone inscription reads:- "FOREVER AND FOR ALWAYS MY HEART LIES WITH YOU. EVER YOUR LOVING WIFE".
|Home address=Resident of West London.  Son of Walter and Lillian Hoggard, husband of Dorothea Hoggard, Westminster, London.
|Image Name=Kenneth_Hoggard_11th_DLI.jpg
|Image Title=CWGC Headstone - Lt Kenneth Hoggard, 11th DLI.
|Source table=11DLI
}}

Battalion records, and one edition of the London Gazette, have his number as 268995

To see Lt Hoggard's commemorative record click [http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2218806/HOGGARD,%20KENNETH here]


Thanks are due to the Find A Grave Website for access to the photograph of Lt Hoggard's headstone.