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|Surname and forenames=Todd George Albert
|Army number=4463320
|Rank=Private
|Decorations=None known, beyond Service Awards.
|Date of birth=Born 4/6/1914 at Houghton-le-Spring, County Durham.
|Age=82 at the time of his death.
|Unit=Enlisted in The Durham Light Infantry 20/6/1940.  Underwent Basic Training - probably at Brancepeth.  Posted to the 11th Battalion DLI 8/2/1941.  Served Iceland.  Returned to the UK 23/12/1941.   Served Normandy from 9/6/1944. Transferred to the Dorset Regiment 28/8/1944 on the disbanding of the 11th Battalion.  Posted to Number 49 Reinforcement Holding Unit 8/12/1944 - 15/2/1945.  Posted elsewhere.  Transferred to Lincolnshire Regiment 16/4/1945 and posted to the 4th Battalion.  Returned to the UK 7/12/1945.  Granted Service Release 13/12/1945.  Demobilised.
|Company/Battery=Probably C Company in 11th Battalion DLI.  May have been in Pioneer Platoon in view of his skills.
|Task or role=Pioneer.  Passed Army Trade Tests 14/12/1941 while serving in Iceland.
|Joined Brigade=8/2/1941.
|Promotions=None known.  Apparently refused appointment to Lance Corporal.
|Prisoner of War=No.
|Died/Killed in action=Date of death 6/4/1997 at Newcastle upon Tyne aged 82.
|Home address=Worked pre-war as a Bricklayer and Mason, with relevant trade qualifications.  Married Annie Charlotta Paull 4/5/1940, Durham Northern.
|Wounded=Not as far as is known.  Understood to have been hit by a rifle round which was blocked by a Bible in his pocket.
|Image Name=E28e4964-54e2-4656-b9a8-2b0eca900b25.jpg
|Image Title=Private George Albert Todd
}}