View source for Marshall Philip John Robb Captain 261093

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|Surname and forenames=Marshall Philip John Robb
|Army number=261093
|Rank=Captain.
|Decorations=Mentioned in Despatches.  Date gazetted not yet traced.
|Date of birth=22/6/1915 - registered Q3 1915 at Newcastle in Emlyn, Cardiganshire.  Mother's maiden surname Robb.
|Age=30 at the time of his death.
|Unit=Any service in the ranks not yet traced.  Commissioned in the Royal Artillery as a Second Lieutenant - gazetted 22/1/1943.  Posted to the 1st Mountain Regiment.  Served in North West Europe.  KILLED in ACTION 30/4/1945.
|Company/Battery=452 Battery.
|Platoon or other sub-unit=Battery HQ.
|Task or role=Thought to have been Battery Captain.
|Joined Brigade=Not yet known.
|Promotions=Captain.
|Wounded=Not so far as is known.
|Prisoner of War=Not so far as is known.
|Died/Killed in action=KILLED in ACTION 30/4/1945 at Lauenburg.  Initially interred in Briefunfen Temporary Burial Ground - map reference Germany Sheet L5 1/100,000 802280.  Reburied 14/5/1947 in Grave 17.F.3. Becklingen War Cemetery.  Headstone inscription reads "GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN".  Probate granted 7/7/1945 to his father - a retired Railway Official in the sum of £333. 1. 11d
|Home address=At the time of the 1939 General Register he was working as a Cinema Manager and lodging at the Coach and Horses Inn,  Leybourn hold, Birtley, Chester-le-Street.  Son of Philip and Alice Margaret Anne Marshall (nee Robb) of Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne.  Lived at 17 Devonshire Place.
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