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|Surname and forenames=O'Brien Francis
|Army number=1078380
|Rank=Gunner
|Decorations=None known other than service medals.
|Date of birth=26/11/1909 - as per his Enlistment documentation.  (Other records show 1908 or 1910 as his birth year).
|Age=(At time of death).
|Unit=Enlisted in the Royal Artillery 12/9/1940 under the National Service (Armed Forces) Act 1939 for the duration of the emergency.  Posted to 51st Anti-Tank Training Regiment at Catterick for basic training 12/9/1940.  Posted to 501st Coastal Regiment, Royal Artillery at Catterick 15/10/1940.  Posted to 423rd Coastal Battery 1/1/1941 at Cromarty.  Posted to 520th Coastal Battery (Regimented with 423rd Battery) at Dover 16/3/1941.  Transferred to Field Branch, Royal Artillery 10/10/1944 and posted to 88th Anti-Tank Regiment.  Proceeded on Draft REPUS 22/11/1944.  Embarked for BLA X(iv) List 22/11/1944.  Taken on strength 49th Regimental Holding Unit from 88th Anti-Tank Regiment in North West Europe 25/11/1944.  Intraposted to 91 Regimental Holding Unit North West Europe.  Posted from X List 31 Regimental Holding Unit and Taken on Strength 73rd Anti-Tank Regiment.  Posted to 54th Anti-Tank Regiment and Taken on Strength 25/9/1945.  Posted to Z (T) Reserve 7/12/1945.  On leave prior to A Class Release 8/12/1945 - 13/2/1946 (part of which was overseas).  Class A Release 13/2/1946.
|Company/Battery=423 Coastal, 520 Coastal.
|Platoon or other Sub-Unit=Not known.
|Task or role=Gunner.
|Joined Brigade=Gunner O'Brien joined 88th Anti-Tank Regiment after the disbandment of 70th Infantry Brigade.
|Promotions=None known.
|Wounded=Not as far as is known.
|Prisoner of War=Not so far as is known.
|Died/Killed in action=Date of death not yet known.
|Home address=Aged 2 at the time of the 1911 Census.  Included in the 1939 General Register - also at Harebell Street. 
Worked as a Poultryman before enlistment.  Next of Kin on enlistment - father - Michael O'Brien, 36 Harebell Street, Liverpool 5.  Mother Elen (nee Adams).  No trace of marriage as yet.
|Image Name=Francis_O%27Brien_88th_Anti-Tank.jpg
|Image Title=Gunner Francis O'Brien
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