ARMY CDOS Chitty, John Albert

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Staff member
  • SURNAME
Chitty
  • FORENAME
John Albert
  • UNIT
4 Commando (C Troop)
  • RANK
Lance Sergeant
  • NUMBER
6850350
  • DATE OF DEATH
6th June 1943
  • AGE
21
  • GRAVESITE
Brookwood Memorial,Surrey Panel 13 Column 2
  • ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
parent unit King's Royal Rifle Corps
born London N
father Henry Edmund Chitty
mother Annie Lousia Chitty
resided London N
"6850530"(PRO)
drowned English Channel during training for D-Day (boat capsized)
 
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John Albert Chitty

John Chitty was one of two members of C Troop No 4 Cdo to drown in the final rehearsal for Exercise Brandyball which was carried out off the Cornish coast, near St Ives. In attrocious conditions, the Goatley boat that he was in capsized. My late uncle, Sgt Donald Martin, was in the boat with him but survived despite being weighed down with a coil of climbing rope and a Thompson Sub-Machine Gun. The whole episode was captured on film by an official Army film unit.
 
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