View source for Waggott Harry 2/Lt 86523

{{Personnel
|id=2379
|Surname and forenames=Waggott Harry
|Army number=86523
|Rank=2/Lt
|Date of birth=Born County Durham April 1917
|Age=27 at the time of his death.
|Unit=Cadet - Durham School Contingent, Junior Division OTC.  Joined The Durham Light Infantry - Commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 8th Battalion 5/4/1939.  Embodied 24/8/1939.  Posted to the 11th Battalion DLI 1/9/39.  Posted 169 OCTU Course No 4, May 1940 (Confirmed by Weekly Return of Officers as at 5/5/1940).  Served Iceland.  Posted for Overseas Service 7/2/1943.  Posted to the 8th Battalion DLI.  Served Middle East, Italy/Sicily and Normandy.  KILLED in ACTION 11/6/1944 with 8th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry.
|Joined Brigade=1/9/1939.
|Company/Battery=11th Battalion - HQ Company, B Company.  8th Battalion - A Company.
|Platoon or other sub-unit=11th Battalion - Mortars.
|Task or role=Weapons Training Officer 10/2/1940, Platoon Commander.
|Promotions=W/S Lt 1/1/1941, A/Captain 1/6/1942, T/Captain 1/9/1942.
|Died/Killed in action=11/6/1944.  Interred initially at Le Haut Audrieu, 14 A.O.D. map reference 861716.  Re-buried 23/9/1944 in Grave II.B.13. Hottot-le-Bagues War Cemetery.  Headstone inscription reads - "AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING WE WILL REMEMBER THEM".
|Home address=Resident of County Durham.  Son of J. Waggott, 1, Holmelands Park, Chester-le-Street.  Educated Durham School and Royal Grammar School, Newcastle.  Husband of Marjory Mary Waggott, of Chester-le-Street, Co. Durham.  
|Source table=11DLI
}}

To see Lt Waggott's commemorative record please click [http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2339370/WAGGOTT,%20HARRY here]