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|Surname and forenames=Houldsworth Herbert Allen
|Army number=14565943
|Rank=Private.
|Decorations=None known beyond Service Awards - 1939/45 medal, France and Germany Star, War Medal.  These were despatched to Herbert on 17/3/1981.
|Date of birth=Born 6/10/1924 - in Bradford - mother's maiden surname Connell.
|Age=88 at the time of his death.
|Unit=Conscripted into the General Staff Corps – date not yet confirmed.  Underwent Basic Training at a Primary Training Centre.  Transferred to The Durham Light Infantry – date not yet available – and posted to the 10th Battalion.  Served Normandy.  Wounded.  Returned to the UK.  Discharged under King's Regulations 1940 Para 390 Section xvi as unfit for further Military Service.  Demobilised.
|Company/Battery=Not yet known.
|Platoon or other sub-unit=Not yet known.
|Task or role=Probably Rifleman.
|Joined Brigade=On being posted to the 10th Battalion.
|Promotions=None known.
|Wounded=Yes – in Normandy – date not recorded.
|Prisoner of War=Not as far as is known.
|Died/Killed in action=Date of death 17/12/2012 aged 88 in Bradford.
|Home address=Father - Willie Houldsworth - born 19/1/1894  - Builder's Labourer.  Mother Sarah A. Houldsworth - born 21/4/1894.  In the 1939 General Register Herbert is shown living with his family at 18, Havelock Street, Bradford and working as a Silk textile doffer.  He married Marjorie Neale in July 1971 in Bradford.
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