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{{personnel
|Surname and forenames=Sturrock Kenneth Gordon
|Army number=14421885
|Rank=Private.
|Decorations=None known beyond Service Awards.
|Date of birth=13/1/1925.
|Age=62 at the time of his death.
|Unit=Conscripted into the General Staff Corps 12/2/1943 for just one day.  Re-joined the General Staff Corps from 1/4/1943 until 12/5/1943.   Underwent Basic Training at a Primary Training Centre.  Transferred to the Highland Regiment (possibly for specialist Infantry training) 13/5/1943 until 9/6/1943.  Transferred to the Black Watch 10/6/1943 and posted to 1st Tyneside Scottish.  Served Normandy.  On the disbandment of the Battalion he was posted to 5th or 7th Black Watch.  Returned to the UK.  Relegated to the Class Z Army Reserve on 1/10/1947.  Demobilised.  Re-joined the Royal Army Service Corps 30/8/1950 and served in the Middle East.  Discharged 20/7/1960 at the termination of his engagement. 
|Company/Battery=A Company, Tyneside Scottish.
|Platoon or other sub-unit=Not yet known.
|Task or role=Probably Rifleman.
|Joined Brigade=On being posted to the 1st Tyneside Scottish.
|Promotions=None known.
|Wounded=Not as far as is known.
|Prisoner of War=Not so far as is known.
|Died/Killed in action=Died in Perth, Australia in October 1987.
|Image Name=IMG_0625.JPG
|Image Title=Private  Kenneth Gordon Sturrock
|Home address=Married Elisabeth Low in Dunster, Somerset in February 1953.  Divorced in 1964.  Took advantage of the "Ten pound Pom Scheme" and emigrated to Australia.
}}