Temple George Edward Pte 4447868
Personnel Entry
Name Temple George Edward
Army number 4447868
Rank Private.
Decorations None known, other than service medals.
Date of birth 18/6/1911 at Newton Bewley. Birth registered in Stockton on Tees, Q3 1911.
Age 94 at the time of his death.
Unit Enlisted in The Durham Light Infantry 4/12/1929 as a Regular soldier for seven years with the Colours and five on the Reserve. Posted to the 1st Battalion DLI. Understood to have been recalled to the Colours on the outbreak of War as a Reservist with the DLI.
Served Iceland. Transferred to the RAOC under Army Council Instruction 626/39 in the rank of Private on 17/7/1942 and posted to the Armoured Training Centre RASC. Documents to Leicester 25/8/1942. Under Army Council Instructions he was transferred to the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. Posted to 70th Brigade HQ and understood to have worked in the Brigade Workshops.
Company/Battery Brigade HQ.
Platoon or other sub-unit Brigade Workshops - RAOC than REME from 1/10/1942.
Task or role Armourer.
Joined Brigade Exact date not yet known.
Promotions Promoted to WOII.
Wounded Not as far as is known.
Prisoner of War Not as far as is known.
Died/Killed in action Died in Darlington Memorial Hospital on 25/10/2005 at the age of 94.
Home address Father was James Temple and mother Ada Clark. Married Marjorie Agar in Darlington on 27/7/1938. Pre-war he worked as a machinist with Vickers at Elswick and also at Weybridge, and post-war, he worked at North Eastern Railway shops at Darlington, until their closure in 1963/64 - leading to his redundancy, and then, also as a machinist, at Richardsons until his retirement in 1976.
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We are indebted to WO II Temple's grandson for much of the information on him.
To read a "People's War" entry on WOII Temple, which includes a photograph of him, please click [1] here.
