Thrift Edward Lt/QM 147075
From 70 Brigade
Personnel Entry
Name Thrift Edward
Army number 147075
Rank Lt/QM
Decorations
Date of birth 1903
Age 0
Unit The Durham Light Infantry - Emergency Commission as Lt(QM) 3/9/1940. Posted to the 10th Bn DLI. Served Iceland. Transferred to the Somerset Light Infantry 20/5/1942. Relinquished Commission as Hon Captain QM on grounds of disability 27/4/1946.
Company/Battery Bn HQ.
Platoon or other sub-unit
Task or role Quartermaster
Joined Brigade 3/9/1940 or shortly thereafter.
Promotions W/S Captain 3/9/1943.
Wounded
Prisoner of War
Died/Killed in action Death registered June 1967, Aldershot.
Home address
Source table 10DLI