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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 193" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Curtis </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Charles Herbert (Charlie and Bum) </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>PPA P Patrol </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Acting Sergeant </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>1894174 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>DATE OF DEATH</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>9th September 1944 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AGE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>24 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>GRAVESITE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Montecchio War Cemetery,Italy II.B.12 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>parent unit 228 AF Coy,Royal Engineers</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 8.10.1919 Oxford</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>enlisted 19.10.1939 Oxford</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Husband of Cecily Eunice Ellen Attee Curtis,384 Cowley Rd,Oxford</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>architectural draughstman in civilian life</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>joined PPA Feb.1943 Tebessa</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>DOW at No 9 CCS,Urbino received 8.9.44 near Urbania (landmine)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>believed to received his nickname when he gatecrashed a Staff meeting</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>and an American officer remarked "Get that bum out of here"</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>allowed to wear a US knitted peaked cap</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>"A short stocky fellow with an irrepressible gaiety" (Popski)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>"A quiet little man with an irrepressible cheerfulness,and the most</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>entertaining manner of turning his narrow escapes into funny stories.One of the pillars of PPA,he could not be replaced" (Popski)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong>IMAGES:</strong></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/c-curtis.10956/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/10/10956-4db814d4d91896ba1db7ac98c6038fe9.jpg?1591389963" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> <a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/c-curtis.1581/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/1/1581-a784d471d92a9160b2d4abeaa89ce912.jpg?1591383278" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> <a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/c-curtis-centre.8558/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/8/8558-1d0ce47b1bee7a5303e0b13400231006.jpg?1591389316" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> <a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/c-h-curtis-grave.33641/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/33/33641-a013ade09fb3e78c423a4116fabe3a35.jpg?1594123441" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
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