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|Surname and forenames=Wizard Alec Ronald
|Army number=265455.
|Rank=Second Lieutenant.
|Decorations=Awarded the C-in-C's Certificate.
|Date of birth=Born 16/6/1918- registered at St George's, Hanover Square. Mother's maiden surname Trotman. Baptised 25/8/1918, St Andrew's Church, Westminster, London - the celebrant was M H M Jones.
|Age=(At time of death) 80.
|Unit=Attended OCTU as a Cadet. Commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers 14/3/1943. Posted to 294th Field Company, Royal Engineers. Served Normandy.
|Platoon or other sub-unit=Not yet known.
|Task or role=Details awaited.
|Joined Brigade=Not yet known.
|Promotions=None known.
|Wounded=Yes - WOUNDED in ACTION.
|Prisoner of War=Not so far as is known.
|Died/Killed in action=Died April 1999, aged 80 in N. E. Hampshire.
|Home address=Father - Edward David Wizard (1872 - 1920), mother Fanny "Jessie" Trotman (1880 - 1958). In the 1939 Register he is apparently listed as living in Peabody Buildings, Buckingham Gate. Lived at 27, Horseferry Road, London S W 1 and later at 22, Imperial House, London S W 1. Married Dorothy Ireen Hurley in April 1956 at Paddington. In 1960 he is described as a Company Director.
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Some information on this Page has been extracted from the Commemorative Booklet, prepared by Major Langley, covering the period from D-Day to VE Day in addition to that extracted from the War Diaries. There are issues around the possible duplication of names which remain to be clarified.

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