Scales Edward George Cpl 6296364
Personnel Entry
Name Scales Edward George
Army number 6296364
Rank Corporal.
Decorations None known beyond Service Awards.
Date of birth Born Kent 1912/13.
Age 31 at the time of his death.
Unit Enlisted in The Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) 26/7/1940. Served Normandy. Transferred to The Durham Light Infantry 7/7/1944, and posted to the 11th Battalion DLI. KILLED in ACTION 17/7/1944 with 11th Battalion The 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 Section Commander.
Joined Brigade 7/7/1944.
Promotions None known beyond Corporal.
Wounded Not yet known, other than the injuries leading to his death.
Prisoner of War Not so far as is known.
Died/Killed in action KILLED in ACTION 17-Jul-44. Interred initially at map reference Montilly 1/50,000 835.671. Re-buried 20/7/1945 in Grave II. B. 1. Tilly-sur-Seulles War Cemetery. Headstone inscription reads : UPRIGHT AND JUST IN ALL HIS WAYS FAITHFUL AND TRUE TO THE END OF HIS DAYS.
Home address Resident of Kent. Son of Edward and Christine Scales, husband of Kathleen Patricia Maud Scales, Sittingbourne, Kent.
Source table 11DLI
