Sotheran Frederick Charles Lance Sergeant 4458159
Personnel Entry
Name Sotheran Frederick Charles
Army number 4458159
Rank Lance Sergeant
Decorations None known beyond Service Awards.
Date of birth Born County Durham 1918/19.
Age 25 at the time of his death.
Unit Enlisted in The Durham Light Infantry, T, no enlistment date but probably mid-1939. Posted ? 6th Battalion DLI. Posted 10th Battalion DLI - probably September 1939. Served in Northern France with the B.E.F.? Served Iceland? Served Normandy. DIED of WOUNDS sustained 20/6/1944 with 10th Bn Durham Light Infantry.
Company/Battery Company not yet known.
Platoon or other sub-unit Not yet known.
Task or role Not known but probably Rifle Platoon Sergeant.
Joined Brigade Probably 1/9/1939.
Promotions None known beyond Lance Sergeant.
Wounded Yes - reported wounded N W Europe 20/6/1944.
Prisoner of War Not so far as is known.
Died/Killed in action DIED of WOUNDS 20-Jun-44. Initially interred in Ryes Temporary Cemetery - Map reference 7E/5 1/50,000 862.822. Re-buried 13/2/1945 in Grave IV. G. 4. Ryes War Cemetery, Bazenville. Headstone inscription reads : NO GREATER SACRIFICE.
Home address Resident of County Durham. Son of Mr and Mrs Fred Sotheran, Murton Colliery.
Source table 10DLI