Galvin Bernard Pte 14427829 - Revision history

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 |Company/Battery=10th Bn - HQ Company, 8th Bn - ?, 9th Bn - HQ Company.
 |Platoon or other sub-unit=Signals Platoon.
-Task or role=Signaller, Rifleman, P.I.A.T. No 2, Signaller, Clerk, Tester, Clerical supervisor.
+|Task or role=Signaller, Rifleman, P.I.A.T. No 2, Signaller, Clerk, Tester, Clerical supervisor.
 |Joined Brigade=October 1943
 |Promotions=Sergeant, on being posted to War Office Selection Centre.

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 |Army number=14427829
 |Rank=Pte
-|Date of birth=1924
+|Date of birth=15/1/1925.
-|Unit=General Service Corps - enlisted May 1943, No 4 ITC Brancepeth, Trf Durham Light Infantry June 1943, Posted 10th Bn DLI, Normandy, Posted 8th Bn DLI, Posted 9th Bn DLI, Posted to War Office Selection Centre, Posted to HQ Western Command, Demobilised 1947.
+|Unit=General Service Corps - enlisted May 1943.  Posted No 4 ITC Brancepeth.  Trf to The Durham Light Infantry 18 June 1943, Posted 10th Bn DLI.  Served Normandy.  Posted 8th Bn DLI.  Posted 9th Bn DLI.  Posted to War Office Selection Centre.  Posted to HQ Western Command.  Discharged 1/12/1946.  Demobilised 1947.
-|Company/Battery=10th Bn - HQ Company, 8th Bn - , 9th Bn - HQ Company.
+|Company/Battery=10th Bn - HQ Company, 8th Bn - ?, 9th Bn - HQ Company.
-|Platoon or other sub-unit=Signals Platoon
+|Platoon or other sub-unit=Signals Platoon.
-Task or role=Signaller, Rifleman, P.I.A.T. No 2, Signaller, Clerk, Tester, Clerical supervisor
+Task or role=Signaller, Rifleman, P.I.A.T. No 2, Signaller, Clerk, Tester, Clerical supervisor.
 |Joined Brigade=October 1943
-|Promotions=Sergeant, on being posted to War Office Selection Centre
+|Promotions=Sergeant, on being posted to War Office Selection Centre.
-|Home address=Born Leeds.  Wetherby.  Scarborough.  Haxby.  Surviving Veteran as at 30/9/2014.
+|Home address=Born Leeds.  Wetherby.  Resident in Scarborough in 2006.  Haxby.  Surviving Veteran as at 30/9/2014.
 |Source table=10DLI
 }}

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	{{Personnel		{{Personnel
		+	\|Name=Galvin Bernard
		+	\|Army number=14427829
		+	\|Rank=Pte
		+	\|Date of birth=1924
		+	\|Unit=General Service Corps - enlisted May 1943, No 4 ITC Brancepeth, Trf Durham Light Infantry June 1943, Posted 10th Bn DLI, Normandy, Posted 8th Bn DLI, Posted 9th Bn DLI, Posted to War Office Selection Centre, Posted to HQ Western Command, Demobilised 1947.
		+	\|Company/Battery=10th Bn - HQ Company, 8th Bn - , 9th Bn - HQ Company.
		+	\|Platoon or other sub-unit=Signals Platoon
		+	Task or role=Signaller, Rifleman, P.I.A.T. No 2, Signaller, Clerk, Tester, Clerical supervisor
		+	\|Joined Brigade=October 1943
		+	\|Promotions=Sergeant, on being posted to War Office Selection Centre
		+	\|Home address=Born Leeds. Wetherby. Scarborough. Haxby. Surviving Veteran as at 30/9/2014.
		+	\|Source table=10DLI
	}}		}}
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		+	At the urging of his family, Mr Galvin wrote up his illicit wartime diary and had it published privately under the title "An Infantryman's Diary 1944-1945".
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		+	The lead researcher acquired a copy via The Rifles Office in Durham and, with Mr Galvin's agreement, will be incorporating his recollections into the appropriate sections of the War Diary of the 10th Battalion.