PPA Curtis, Charles Herbert (Charlie and Bum)

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Staff member
  • SURNAME
Curtis
  • FORENAME
Charles Herbert (Charlie and Bum)
  • UNIT
PPA P Patrol
  • RANK
Acting Sergeant
  • NUMBER
1894174
  • DATE OF DEATH
9th September 1944
  • AGE
24
  • GRAVESITE
Montecchio War Cemetery,Italy II.B.12
  • ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
parent unit 228 AF Coy,Royal Engineers
born 8.10.1919 Oxford
enlisted 19.10.1939 Oxford
Husband of Cecily Eunice Ellen Attee Curtis,384 Cowley Rd,Oxford
architectural draughstman in civilian life
joined PPA Feb.1943 Tebessa
DOW at No 9 CCS,Urbino received 8.9.44 near Urbania (landmine)
believed to received his nickname when he gatecrashed a Staff meeting
and an American officer remarked "Get that bum out of here"
allowed to wear a US knitted peaked cap
"A short stocky fellow with an irrepressible gaiety" (Popski)
"A quiet little man with an irrepressible cheerfulness,and the most
entertaining manner of turning his narrow escapes into funny stories.One of the pillars of PPA,he could not be replaced" (Popski)
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