WILLIAMS, Frank
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Rank:
Private
Unit / Base:
1 Commando
Regiment/Corps:
The King's Regiment (Liverpool)
Service:
Army
Number:
3778254
Died :
Sunday, March 28, 1943
Killed in action or died of wounds
Age:
29
Cemetery/Memorial:
Private Frank Williams died during operations in North Africa. Son of John Henry Williams and of Sarah Ellen Williams (nee Hughes), of Wigan, Lancashire; husband of Edith Williams, of Pemberton, Wigan.
Extract from the No 1 Commando War Diary for 28 March 1943
Location: Djebel Choucha, Algeria.
1600 hrs - Own troops shelled by our artillery ( Capt.Davies O.C. group 1 and 5 0.R.s injured. 1 O.R killed ). [1]
Sources
CWGC
War Diary - 1 Commando,1943, National Archives file WO 218/49.
Notes
[1] Pte Williams was the only No 1 Commando recorded as dying on this date.
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