Mountjoy William Albert Thomas Lance Bombardier 14289637 - Revision history

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|Unit=Served in the Royal Artillery. Posted to the 1st Mountain Regiment.
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No Royal Artillery Tracer Card found for this soldier on Ancestry.co.uk

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 |Army number=Lance Bombardier
 |Rank=14289637
-|Decorations=
+|Decorations=None known beyond Service Awards.
-|Date of birth=1915
+|Date of birth=Birth registered in January 1915 at Portsmouth, Hampshire.  Mother's maiden surname Pope.
 |Age=29 at the time of his death.
 |Unit=Enlisted - probably conscripted - into the General Staff Corps.  Underwent Basic Training at a Primary Training Centre.  Transferred to the Royal Artillery.  May have been posted to a Field Training Regiment for gunnery training.  Posted to the 1st Mountain Regiment.  Served in North West Europe.  KILLED in ACTION 1/11/1944 at Flushing.
 |Company/Battery=452 Battery
 |Platoon or other sub-unit=Possibly Battery HQ.
-|Task or role=
+|Task or role=Not yet confirmed.
 |Joined Brigade=Not yet known.
 |Promotions=Lance Bombardier.
 |Wounded=Not so far as is known.
 |Prisoner of War=Not so far as is known.
-|Died/Killed in action=KILLED in ACTION 1/11/1944 at Flushing as part of a group of casualties.
+|Died/Killed in action=KILLED in ACTION 1/11/1944 at Flushing as part of a group of casualties.  Interred initially in Biervliet Temporary Burial Ground - map reference - Sheet 5 1/100,000 - 181114.  Re-buried on 5/6/1946 in Grave 19.B.4. in Bergen-op-Zoom War Cemetery.  Headstone inscription reads "CHERISHED MEMORIES OF A LOVING HUSBAND AND FATHER.  "SAFE IN GOD'S KEEPING"."
-|Home address=
+|Home address=Son of William and Amy Mountjoy.  Husband of Janet Christina Mountjoy (nee Weatherburn) whom he had married at Gosport in April 1940.
 }}
 No Royal Artillery Tracer Card found for this soldier on Ancestry.co.uk