Harber Alec George Private 5680543
Personnel Entry
Name Harber Alec George
Army number 5680543
Rank Private.
Decorations None yet known beyond Service Awards.
Date of birth Born 17/2/1915 at Croydon, Surrey.
Age
Unit Enlisted in the Somerset Light Infantry - date not known. Transferred to The Durham Light Infantry and posted to the 11th Battalion DLI. Served Normandy. Wounded. Posted to ? Battalion DLI on the disbandment of the 11th Battalion. Returned to the UK. Relegated to Class Z (T) Regular Army Reserve 20/5/1946. Demobilised.
Company/Battery Not yet ascertained.
Platoon or other sub-unit
Task or role Not yet known but probably Rifleman.
Joined Brigade Not yet known.
Promotions None known as yet.
Wounded Yes - Normandy - date not recorded.
Prisoner of War Not as far as is known.
Died/Killed in action Died at Croydon September 1988.
Home address Father Samuel George Harber (1888 - 1917) - KILLED in ACTION France and Flanders. Mother - Minnie Jeanette May Bartlett (1894 - 1981). His mother remarried and he had four step-siblings - all of whom died on 4/7/1942, which implied enemy action or some domestic disaster. Marf ried Amy Elizabeth Jones (1919-1995)at Croydon in July 1945. Lived n South Croydon.
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