Shipley Alan Reginald Wallace Capt 42023
Personnel Entry
Name Shipley Alan Reginald Wallace
Army number 42023
Rank Capt
Decorations psc, M.i.D. 10/1/1946
Date of birth 23/12/1910
Age
Unit Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry - Commissioned as 2/Lt 29/1/1931, Seconded on attachment to the RAF 14/9/1936 until 1940, Posted No 4 ITC, Posted 11th Bn The Durham Light Infantry 13/3/1940, B.E.F., ?Iceland, Attached to Royal West African Frontier Force - Africa and Burma 1941 - 1945, Retired 15/1/1956, Ceased RARO liability 22/2/1961.
Company/Battery 11th Bn - Bn HQ,
Platoon or other sub-unit
Task or role Adjutant 10/3/1940 to 5/4/1941,
Joined Brigade
Promotions Lt 29/1/1934, Captain 29/1/1939, A/Major 6/4/1941, T/Major 16/5/1943, Major 1/7/1946
Wounded
Prisoner of War
Died/Killed in action
Home address Son of Lt Col Reginald Burge Shipley and Flora Marion, daughter of William Wallace, Oklahoma. Educated Winchester and Christ's College, Cambridge (BA 1932). Married 6/6/1947 Violet, daughter of Edward Harold Kemp RCMP. Yew Tree Cottage, Blackboys, Sussex.
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