Oldham John Lt QM 0
Personnel Entry
Name Oldham John
Army number 92055
Rank Lt QM
Decorations M.C. 20/12/1940, psc
Date of birth
Age 0
Unit Royal Engineers - enlisted 1920 and reached the rank of Staff Sergeant, Durham Light Infantry - Commissioned as Lt QM 21/6/1939, Posted 6th Bn DLI, Embodied 24/8/1939, Posted 10th Bn DLI 1/9/1939, South Devon Sub-Area 1/8/1940, Relinquished TA Commission on being appointed to an Emergency Commission as Lt 7/8/1940, Iceland, Left 10th Bn by January 1942, ? Junior Leaders' School, Unemployed list 1947. Removed from the Army 1950.
Company/Battery Bn HQ, HQ Company, South Devon Sub-Area, D Company.
Platoon or other sub-unit
Task or role
Joined Brigade 1/9/1939
Promotions T/Captain 18/10/1940, W/S Captain and T/Major 4/12/1942.
Wounded
Prisoner of War
Died/Killed in action
Home address Educated Sydney, New South Wales. Clerk.
Source table 10DLI
