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<blockquote data-quote="Craig Robertson" data-source="post: 60092" data-attributes="member: 6852"><p> <table style='width: 100%'><tr><td>Photo</td><td>[ATTACH=full]32027[/ATTACH]</td></tr><tr><td>Full Name</td><td><strong>Charles Herbert Curtis</strong></td></tr><tr><td>Nickname</td><td>Charlie / Bum</td></tr><tr><td>Number</td><td>1894174</td></tr><tr><td>Rank</td><td>Sergeant</td></tr><tr><td>Nationality</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Date of Birth</td><td>08.10.1919 Oxford</td></tr><tr><td>Date of Death</td><td>09.09.1944, Urbino (Aged 24) (Grave reads age as 25)</td></tr><tr><td>Gravesite</td><td>Montecchio War Cemetery, Italy II.B.12</td></tr><tr><td>Father</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Mother</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Enlisted</td><td>19.10.1939 Oxford</td></tr><tr><td>Military</td><td>parent unit 228 AF Coy,Royal Engineers<br /> joined PPA Feb.1943 Tebessa<br /> PPA P Patrol<br /> DOW at No 9 CCS,Urbino received 8.9.44 near Urbania (landmine)</td></tr><tr><td>Married</td><td>Cecily Eunice Ellen Attee Curtis, 384 Cowley Rd, Oxford</td></tr><tr><td>Further Information</td><td>architectural draughstman in civilian life<br /> believed to received his nickname when he gatecrashed a Staff meeting when an American officer remarked "Get that bum out of here"<br /> allowed to wear a US knitted peaked cap<br /> "A short stocky fellow with an irrepressible gaiety" (Popski)<br /> "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)</td></tr></table><p></p><p><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.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-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> <a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/ppa-group.28045/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/28/28045-4395a243bf3274172125cc6a718cbd20.jpg?1591433947" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> <a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/ppa-group.19886/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/19/19886-1cbf5fe74fa761ec68ff1c5a7015e962.jpg?1591400631" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> <a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/ppa-group.19887/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/19/19887-3a24a08bbd20f49987b62a3c0e6a159a.jpg?1591400631" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> <a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/ppa-group-see-note.1303/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/1/1303-926af77de5b41c8b7f02908e9da72c5c.jpg?1591383204" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> <a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/ppa-group-see-note.1304/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/1/1304-359b88ae19382d68a4caf55b91f60532.jpg?1591383205" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> <a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/ppa-inside-glider-1943.1237/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/1/1237-4acea9fef85a6217a77bce8b29d91f92.jpg?1591383183" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> <a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/ppa-roll-of-honour.4832/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/4/4832-5c140607cca8298e261a374cd2997cdd.jpg?1591384140" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
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