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|Surname and forenames=Brayshay Jack
|Army number=14391400
|Rank=Private.
|Decorations=Service Awards - France and Germany Star and War Medal.
|Date of birth=24/04/1924 in Bradford. Mother's maiden surname Garton.
|Age=67 at the time of his death.
|Unit=Conscripted into the Army at the age of 18 and eight months on 17/12/1942. Basic training at 54 Primary Training Wing, Brancepeth. Posted to DLI Training Corps at No. 4 Infantry Training Centre, Brancepeth 27/1/1943 - Authority WOUM 112/MISC 3669(AGIP). Posted to 11th Battalion The Durham Light Infantry 25/5/1943. Injured in vehicle accident 31/5/1943. Hospitalised Llanelli. Posted to Y List 20/6/1943. Returned to 11th DLI 6/8/1943. Embarked 12/6/1944. Served Normandy. Transferred to the Dorsetshire Regiment on the disbandment of 11th DLI 28/8/1944 under Army Council Instruction 626/39. Posted to 1st Battalion. Wounded in Action 4/10/1944 - moved to No. 3 Casualty Clearing Station and posted to List X (ii). Discharged and posted to 47 Regimental Holding Unit 11/10/1944. Posted to 33 Regimental Holding Unit 16/10/1944. Posted List X (iv). Posted to List X (vii). Attached to 303 Mobile Laundry and Bath Unit 15/5/1945. Transferred to the Royal Army Ordnance Corps 13/9/1945 under Army Council Instruction 626/39 and 2821/org/0/70097/3444. Posted to 15 Advanced Base Ordnance Depot ex BAOR List. Posted to 1 Corps Dis. Ordnance Company 25/11/1945. Embarked North West Europe 4/5/1947. Allocated to the Army General Reserve Group P. Release 21/8/1947. Ordered to rejoin for training 12/7/1951, joined at Church Broughton, training completed 22/9/1951 (assumed to be related to Korea although there is no indication that he served in that Theatre).
|Company/Battery=C Company in both 11th DLI and 1st Dorsetshires.
|Platoon or other sub-unit=Not yet ascertained.
|Task or role=Rifleman.
|Joined Brigade=25/5/1943.
|Promotions=Upgraded to Scale D class 1 19/6/1943. Reclassified Class 1A 17/12/1945.
|Wounded=Yes - 4/10/1944, probably at Bemmel, Holland.
|Prisoner of War=No.
|Died/Killed in action=Date of death June 1991 at Bradford, West Yorkshire.
|Home address=Mother Ada Mary Garton.
|Image Name=Dad%27s_Training_Pic.jpg
|Image Title=Private Jack Brayshay - after Basic Training.
}}

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