Buzzard Thomas Arthur Pte 4459349 - Revision history

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{{Personnel
|Surname and forenames=Buzzard Thomas Arthur
|Army number=4459349
|Rank=Pte
|Age=0
|Unit=Durham Light Infantry, T, no enlistment date, Posted 11th Bn DLI, Iceland, Trf Dorsetshire Regiment 28/8/44, Enlistment Book not available.
|Source table=11DLI
}}

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 Sincere thanks are due to the descendants of the Buzzard family, who maintain family trees on Ancestry.co.uk, for the use of the photograph on this page.  Thanks are also due to Paul Errington for additional elements of service information and further photographs.
-The additional images show Sergeant Buzzard during his service with the 1st Battalion of the Dorsetshire Regiment.
+This additional image shows Sergeant Buzzard during his service with the 1st Battalion of the Dorsetshire Regiment.
 [[File:Sgt_Thomas_Arthur_Buzzard_1st_Dorsets_-_third_from_left..jpg|400px|thumb|centre|Sgt Buzzard third from left]]

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	Sincere thanks are due to the descendants of the Buzzard family, who maintain family trees on Ancestry.co.uk, for the use of the photograph on this page. Thanks are also due to Paul Errington for additional elements of service information and further photographs.		Sincere thanks are due to the descendants of the Buzzard family, who maintain family trees on Ancestry.co.uk, for the use of the photograph on this page. Thanks are also due to Paul Errington for additional elements of service information and further photographs.
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		+	The additional images show Sergeant Buzzard during his service with the 1st Battalion of the Dorsetshire Regiment.
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		+	[[File:Sgt_Thomas_Arthur_Buzzard_1st_Dorsets_-_third_from_left..jpg\|400px\|thumb\|centre\|Sgt Buzzard third from left]]

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 |Source table=11DLI
 |Image Name=4459349_Thomas_Arthur_Buzzard.jpg
-|Image Title=Pte Buzzard - Wedding photo
+|Image Title=Sgt Buzzard - Wedding photo
 }}
 Sincere thanks are due to the descendants of the Buzzard family, who maintain family trees on Ancestry.co.uk, for the use of the photograph on this page.  Thanks are also due to Paul Errington for additional elements of service information and further photographs.

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 |Rank=Pte
 |Date of birth=Research indicates 6/4/1918 in South Shields.
-|Age=0
+|Age=67 at the time of his death.
-|Unit=Enlisted in The Durham Light Infantry, T, no enlistment date (probably January 1940).   Posted 11th Bn DLI.  Served BEF?   Served Iceland.  Served Normandy.   Transferred to the Dorsetshire Regiment 28/8/44 on the disbandment of 11th Battalion.   Class Z Army Reserve 6/7/1946.
+|Unit=Enlisted in The Durham Light Infantry, T, 17 January 1940.   Posted to the  11th Bn DLI.  Served B.E,F.  Evacuated via Dunkirk.   Served Iceland.  Served Normandy.   Transferred to the Dorsetshire Regiment 28/8/44 on the disbandment of 11th Battalion.   Served with B.A.O.R. until 13/4/1946.  Class Z Army Reserve 6/7/1946.
-|Joined Brigade=Probably January/February 1940.
+|Joined Brigade=17th February 1940.
-|Promotions=Corporal.
+|Promotions=Corporal. Sergeant - while with Dorsetshire Regiment - 19/3/1945.
-|Died/Killed in action=Research suggests he died April 1985 aged 67.
+|Died/Killed in action=Died 15 April 1985 aged 67.
-|Home address=Son of John Thomas and Dora Elizabeth Buzzard (nee Cooper).  Resident of South Shields in 1944.  Married Jean Arkley in Q3 1953 in North East Durham.
+|Home address=Son of John Thomas and Dora Elizabeth Buzzard (nee Cooper).  Resident of South Shields in 1944.  Married Jean Arkley in Q3 1953 in North East Durham.  Lived in Durham from 1953 onwards.  After demobilisation served as a Prison Officer until retiring in 1983.  Member of Normandy Veterans' Association.
 |Source table=11DLI
 |Image Name=4459349_Thomas_Arthur_Buzzard.jpg
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 }}
-Sincere thanks are due to the descendants of the Buzzard family, who maintain family trees on Ancestry.co.uk, for the use of the photograph on this page.
+Sincere thanks are due to the descendants of the Buzzard family, who maintain family trees on Ancestry.co.uk, for the use of the photograph on this page.  Thanks are also due to Paul Errington for additional elements of service information and further photographs.

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 |Date of birth=Research indicates 6/4/1918 in South Shields.
 |Age=0
-|Unit=Enlisted in The Durham Light Infantry, T, no enlistment date (probably January 1940).   Posted 11th Bn DLI.  ? BEF.  Served Iceland.  Served Normandy.   Trf Dorsetshire Regiment 28/8/44.   Class Z Army Reserve 6/7/1946.
+|Unit=Enlisted in The Durham Light Infantry, T, no enlistment date (probably January 1940).   Posted 11th Bn DLI.  Served BEF?   Served Iceland.  Served Normandy.   Transferred to the Dorsetshire Regiment 28/8/44 on the disbandment of 11th Battalion.   Class Z Army Reserve 6/7/1946.
 |Joined Brigade=Probably January/February 1940.
 |Died/Killed in action=Research suggests he died April 1985 aged 67.
-|Home address=Son of John Thomas and Dora Elizabeth Buzzard (nee Cooper).  Married Jean Arkley in Q3 1953 in North East Durham.
+|Home address=Son of John Thomas and Dora Elizabeth Buzzard (nee Cooper).  Resident of South Shields in 1944.  Married Jean Arkley in Q3 1953 in North East Durham.
 |Source table=11DLI
 |Image Name=4459349_Thomas_Arthur_Buzzard.jpg
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 }}
-Thanks are due to the descendants of the Buzzard family who maintain family trees on Ancestry.co.uk for the use of the photograph on this page.
+Sincere thanks are due to the descendants of the Buzzard family, who maintain family trees on Ancestry.co.uk, for the use of the photograph on this page.

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	\|Image Title=Pte Buzzard - Wedding photo		\|Image Title=Pte Buzzard - Wedding photo
	}}		}}
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		+	Thanks are due to the descendants of the Buzzard family who maintain family trees on Ancestry.co.uk for the use of the photograph on this page.