View source for Powell George James Lt (QM) 143879

{{Personnel
|id=2415
|Surname and forenames=Powell George James
|Army number=143879
|Date of birth=3/5/1898 in Hereford.
|Rank=Lt (QM)
|Decorations=M.i.D. London Gazette 22/3/1945. Long Service and Good Conduct Medal 9/4/1948.
|Age=79 at the time of his death.
|Unit=The Durham Light Infantry - enlisted 15/1/1916 as 1669047.  Regular soldier.  Posted 2nd Bn DLI as Company Sergeant Major.  Served B.E.F.?  Emergency Commission as Lt (QM) 27/8/1940.  Posted 11th Bn DLI 27/8/1940.  Served Iceland.  Served Normandy.  With the Battalion on disbandment 26/8/1944.  Posted No 40 Replacement Holding Unit as Captain.  Unemployed list 1945 as Honorary Captain.
|Company/Battery=Battalion HQ, HQ Company.
|Platoon or other sub-unit=Probably Administration Platoon.
|Task or role=Battalion Quartermaster, with effect from 27/8/1940.
|Joined Brigade=27-Aug-40.
|Promotions=W/S Captain (QM) 27/8/1943.
|Wounded=Not so far as is known.
|Prisoner of War=Not so far as is known.
|Died/Killed in action=Date of death registration January 1978 - Kidderminster, Herefordshire.
|Home address=In 1901 Census was with his family - father William and mother Elizabeth - at Shelwick, Herefordshire, and at the 1911 Census at Holmer in Herefordshire (12, Barrs Court Place).  Married Winifred Fanny Bird.
|Source table=11DLI
}}

Some Battalion records have his number as 143878, which appears to be incorrect.