View source for Scales Edward George Cpl 6296364

{{Personnel
|id=3395
|Surname and forenames=Scales Edward George
|Army number=6296364
|Rank=Corporal.
|Date of birth=Born Kent 1912/13.
|Age=31 at the time of his death.
|Unit=Enlisted in The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) 26/7/1940.  Served Normandy.  Transferred to The Durham Light Infantry 7/7/1944, and posted to the 11th Battalion DLI.   KILLED in ACTION 17/7/1944 with 11th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry.
|Decorations=None known beyond Service Awards.
|Company/Battery=Company not yet known.
|Platoon or other sub-unit=Not yet known.
|Task or role=Not known but probably Rifle Section Commander.
|Joined Brigade=7/7/1944.
|Promotions=None known beyond Corporal.
|Wounded=Not yet known, other than the injuries leading to his death.
|Prisoner of War=Not so far as is known.
|Died/Killed in action=KILLED in ACTION 17-Jul-44.  Interred initially at map reference Montilly 1/50,000 835.671.  Re-buried 20/7/1945 in Grave II. B. 1. Tilly-sur-Seulles War Cemetery.  Headstone inscription reads : UPRIGHT AND JUST IN ALL HIS WAYS FAITHFUL AND TRUE TO THE END OF HIS DAYS.
|Home address=Resident of Kent.  Son of Edward and Christine Scales, husband of Kathleen Patricia Maud Scales, Sittingbourne, Kent.  
|Source table=11DLI
}}