Salmon Albert George Sergeant 1444999 - Revision history

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{{personnel
|Surname and forenames=Salmon Albert George
|Army number=1444999
|Rank=Sergeant.
|Decorations=None known beyond Service Awards
|Date of birth=Not yet ascertained.
|Age=(At time of death). Not yet known.
|Unit=Enlisted in the Royal Artillery. Underwent Basic Training. Posted to the 55th Anti-Tank Regiment.
|Company/Battery=Not yet known.
|Platoon or other sub-unit=Not yet known.
|Task or role=Details awaited.
|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=Date of death not yet ascertained.
|Home address=No family information yet.
}}

Information on this Page has been extracted from the Royal Artillery Tracer Card found for this soldier on Ancestry.co.uk

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 |Rank=Sergeant.
 |Decorations=None known beyond Service Awards.
-|Date of birth=Not yet ascertained, but presumably 1916.
+|Date of birth=Born 1916 in Suffolk.
 |Age=28 at the time of his death.
-|Unit=Enlisted in the Royal Artillery.  Underwent Basic Training.  Posted to the 55th Anti-Tank Regiment.  Served Normandy. Died of wounds 30/6/1944.
+|Unit=Enlisted in the Royal Artillery.  Underwent Basic Training.  Posted to the 55th (Suffolk Yeomanry) Anti-Tank Regiment.  Served Normandy. Died of wounds 30/6/1944.
 |Company/Battery=Not yet known.
 |Platoon or other sub-unit=Not yet known.
-|Task or role=Details awaited.
+|Task or role=Details awaited, possibly Troop Sergeant.
 |Joined Brigade=Not yet known.
 |Promotions=None known beyond Sergeant.
 |Wounded=Yes - Normandy - exact date not yet known.
 |Prisoner of War=No.
-|Died/Killed in action=DIED of WOUNDS 30/6/1944.  Initially interred at Ryes, Map 1/50,000, MR 7E/5 Reference 864.823.  Re-buried 8/11/1944 in Plot III, Row G, Grave 5 Ryes War Cemetery, Bazenville.  Headstone inscription reads LOVED IN LIFE, TREASURED IN DEATH, BEAUTIFUL MEMORIES, ARE ALL WE HAVE LEFT.
+|Died/Killed in action=DIED of WOUNDS 30/6/1944.  Initially interred at Ryes, Map 1/50,000, MR 7E/5 Reference 864.823.  Re-buried 8/11/1944 in Plot III, Row G, Grave 5 in Ryes War Cemetery, Bazenville.  Headstone inscription reads LOVED IN LIFE, TREASURED IN DEATH, BEAUTIFUL MEMORIES, ARE ALL WE HAVE LEFT.
-|Home address=Son of Wilfred John and Ella Phoebe Salmon.  Husband of Ivy Ella Salmon of Bardwell, Suffolk.
+|Home address=Son of Wilfred John and Ella Phoebe Salmon (nee Dodson).  Married Ivy Ella Middleditch at Bury St Edmunds in 1939.  Lived at Bardwell, Suffolk.
 |Image Name=Sgt_Salmon_CWGC_Headstone.jpg
 |Image Title=CWGC Headstone.

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 |Died/Killed in action=Date of death not yet ascertained.
 |Home address=No family information yet.
-|Image Name=
+|Image Name=Sgt_Salmon_CWGC_Headstone.jpg
-|Image Title=
+|Image Title=CWGC Headstone.
 }}
 Information on this Page has been extracted from the Royal Artillery Tracer Card found for this soldier on Ancestry.co.uk