PARAS 2 Alderson, Thomas Peverley

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Alderson ​

• FORENAME

Thomas Peverley ​

• UNIT

10 Para (T.A.) ​

• RANK

Colour Sergeant ​

• NUMBER

22520316 ​

• DATE OF DEATH

6th July 1965 ​

• AGE

40 ​

• GRAVESITE

Aldershot Military Cemetery,Aldershot,Hampshire Section C Grave 21 ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

born 18.7.1924​

enlisted Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers​

1944 volunteered Parachute Regiment ​

served A Company, 12th Parachute Battalion in Normandy, Ardennes and the Rhine Crossing​

03.1945 WIA Hamminheln on Rhine Crossing​

1949 enlisted TA 44 Parachute Field Ambulance​

09.1951 joined 4 Coy 10 PARA​

1959 promoted to Colour Sergeant​

1965 six week course to qualify as Assistant Parachute Jump Instructor when​

killed in air crash Little Baldon, Oxfordshire (RAF Hastings TG 577) ​

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