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|Surname and forenames=Pagett Gerald Charles
|Army number=14442784
|Rank=Gunner
|Decorations=None known beyond Service Awards
|Date of birth=Birth registered January 1926 at Kidderminster. Mother's maiden surname Howell.
|Age=19 at the time of his death.
|Unit=Enlisted - probably conscripted - into the General Staff Corps - date not yet known. Underwent Basic Training at a Preliminary Training Centre. Transferred to the Royal Artillery. Probably posted to a Field Training Regiment for gunnery training, or to a Driver Training Regiment. Posted to the 1st Mountain Regiment. Served in North West Europe. KILLED in a Motor Accident 9/4/1945.
|Company/Battery=Not yet known, but probably 452 Battery.
|Platoon or other sub-unit=Not yet known.
|Task or role=Driver.
|Joined Brigade=Not yet known.
|Promotions=None known.
|Wounded=Not so far as is known.
|Prisoner of War=Not so far as is known.
|Died/Killed in action=Died 9/4/1945, as a result of a Motor Accident, possibly the same accident which resulted in the death of Lt H C Smith of 1st Mountain Regiment. Interred initially in Neustadt Temporary Burial Ground, Map Germany sheet N4, reference 172884. Re-buried 20/1/1947 in Grave 15.D.13. Becklingen War Cemetery. Headstone inscription reads"AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN, AND IN THE MORNING, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM".
|Home address=Son of William and Elsie Pagett of Kidderminster, Worcestershire.
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