Hoggard Kenneth 2/Lt 268955
Personnel Entry
Name Hoggard Kenneth
Army number 268955
Rank 2/Lt
Decorations M.C. Gazetted 19 October 1944 for services in N W Europe.
Date of birth 1922 in Canada
Age 22
Unit Posted as Cadet to 164 O.C.T.U. Durham Light Infantry - Commissioned as 2/Lt 27/3/1943. Posted 11th Bn DLI 2/4/1943. Served Normandy. Transferred to No 3 Casualty Clearing Station 27/6/1944. DIED of WOUNDS with 11th Bn Durham Light Infantry 28/6/1944.
Company/Battery
Platoon or other sub-unit
Task or role Duty Officer
Joined Brigade 02-Apr-43.
Promotions W/S Lt 27/9/1943.
Wounded 27/6/1944.
Prisoner of War
Died/Killed in action 28-Jun-44.
Home address Resident of West London. Son of Walter and Lillian Hoggard, husband of Dorothea Hoggard, Westminster, London. Buried Grave IV. B. 8. Tilly-sur-Seulles War Cemetery.
Source table 11DLI
Battalion records, and one edition of the London Gazette, have his number as 268995
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