HUNTER, Norman Pearson
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Rank:
Lance Corporal
Unit / Base:
6 Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Gordon Highlanders
Service:
Army
Number:
2888701
Born:
Thursday, August 24, 1916
Birthplace:
Erpingham, Norfolk
Died :
Tuesday, October 21, 1941
Died on war service
Age:
25
Cemetery/Memorial:
Lance Corporal Norman Hunter died in a mountaineering accident when he fell whilst training. Son of William Pearson Hunter and Emma Lizzie Hunter, of Leicester. Educated at Wyggeston Grammar School, Leicester. Member of the Westleigh Rugby Club. Formerly employed as a Hosiery Manufacturers Traveller.
Sources
CWGC.
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/33.
The 1939 Register covering Leicester.
Leicester Chronicle 1st November 1941, p2.
Wyggeston Grammar School England Deaths 1939-1945 (FMP).
[Image] Leicester Chronicle 25 October 1941, p2.
Primary Roll of Honour:
Photo of grave in Gallery:
Yes
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