PEEL, Clifford
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Rank:
Gunner
Unit / Base:
3 Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Artillery
Service:
Army
Number:
3603751
Died :
Friday, April 23, 1943
Died on war service
Age:
23
Cemetery/Memorial:
Gunner Clifford Peel, from Stockport, and a veteran of the Dieppe raid, died of wounds from a grenade after an accident on 22 April 1943 at a firing range at Fort de L'Eau, Algeria. Son of Peter and Agnes Peel, of Stockport, Cheshire. A former pupil from Denton Council School he worked as a grocery assistant before joining the Army in 1940.
Sources
CWGC.
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/60.
No.3 Cdo. War Diary entry dated 22/4/43.
Royal Artillery Casualty Card.
Newspaper report in the No.3 Commando gallery.
ROH in Commando - Memoirs of a Fighting Commando in WW2, author Brig. Durnford-Slater.
Primary Roll of Honour:
Photo of Commando in Gallery:
Yes
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