Spittlehouse David Cpl 4455892
Personnel Entry
Name Spittlehouse David (surname subsequently Sutton from 1948).
Army number 4455892
Rank Private.
Decorations Service Awards. Commemorative medal awarded.
Date of birth Born Hebburn 3/1/1921. Mother's maiden surname Geddes. Baptised 26/1/1921 at St John's Church, Hebburn.
Age Aged 90 at the time of his death.
Unit Enlisted in The Durham Light Infantry, T, no definite enlistment date as yet, but his number suggests 2nd or 3rd May 1939. Posted to the ? 9th Battalion. Posted to the ? 12th Battalion DLI 1/9/1939. Transferred to the Black Watch 1/2/1940, and posted to the 1st Tyneside Scottish. Served with the B.E.F. in Northern France. Wounded. Returned to the UK - probably via Dunkirk. Served Iceland. Served Normandy. On the disbandment of the Battalion transferred to the Royal Scots Fusiliers 22/8/44, under Authority: X/108/44, and posted to their 11th Battalion - RSF Enlistment Book 358/5/92. Relegated to the Class Z Army Reserve 3/8/1944.
Company/Battery Bn HQ, HQ Company.
Platoon or other sub-unit Probably Admin. Platoon initially.
Task or role Understood to have been Batman to Lt Cohen. Later roles not known but possibly Rifle Section Commander.
Joined Brigade 1/9/1939.
Promotions Best Company shot 3/40. Promoted to Corporal.
Wounded Understood to have been lightly wounded in 1940.
Prisoner of War No.
Died/Killed in action Died on 20/10/2011 in Lichfield.
Home address His father was Joseph Spittlehouse and his mother Isabella Geddes. At the time of his Baptism his family lived at 54, Charles Street, Hebburn. Later lived at 74, Campbell St. Hebburn-on-Tyne and then resided in the Midlands. Married Margery Agnes Holton 10/4/1945. Worked at Reyrolles.
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