COUNSELL, Harold Pettit
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Known as:
Harry
Rank:
Gunner (later Lance Sergeant)
Unit / Base:
1 Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Artillery
Service:
Army
Number:
866743
Born:
Wednesday, March 16, 1921
Died :
Sunday, December 28, 1997
Age:
76
Harold Counsell was attested into the Royal Artillery in 1937. During WW2 he volunteered for the Commandos and was wounded on 15 January 1945 during operations in Burma. Post war member of the Commando Association from Beckenham, Kent.
Sources
RA Attestations Registers 1937.
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/88.
Obituaries in Commando Association newsletter 106 (1998) (final rank shown as L/Sgt).
England & Wales Government Probate Death Index, London registry, probate date 25/2/1998.
Registers of Deaths in Bromley, Kent, 1997.
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