- SURNAME
Lucas
- FORENAME
John George Anderson
- UNIT
3 Bn 6th Gurkha Rifles (77 Ind.Bde) (Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry,attached)
- RANK
Captain (A/Major)
- NUMBER
193809
- AWARD
Military Cross,Mention in Despatches
- PLACE
Burma 1944
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
born 25.4.1921 Aylesbury,Buckinghamshire
educated Mayfield School,Sussex
commissioned Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry 15.7.1941
seconded 3/6 Gurkha Rifles 1943-45
WIA May 1944 Natyigon,Burma
manager,JP Lucas and Co (family furnishing business) postwar
married Barbara Thrasher 1952 (5 children)
died 24.5.2013
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