- SURNAME
Hume-Spry
- FORENAME
John Francis
- UNIT
6 Commando (2 Troop)
- RANK
Lieutenant
- NUMBER
106698
- DATE OF DEATH
24th March 1945
- AGE
- GRAVESITE
Reichswald Forest War Cemetery,Germany 52.A.9
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
parent unit Royal Artillery
born Edinburgh 10 June 1920.
resided Sussex
1938 Dec. 24 Passed into Woolwich.
Nov. 4 Gazetted 2nd Lieut. Posted to RA Reception Centre Ascot.
1942. Jan. Training post at Islandmagee, Co. Antrim, N. Ireland.
March. Married local girl Rosemary Forbes.
1944 3 Oct. Joins the Commandoes. Hermitage Camp Wrexham, then to Spean Bridge for training.
1945 5 Feb. On leave at home in St. Leonards on Sea. Sent to the front. Parents see him off for the last time.
24 March No. 6 Commando cross R. Rhine to take Wesel. Missing presumed drowned.
He is buried in the Reichwald Forest War Cemetery near Kleve on the German Dutch border.
Information courtesy of his son Peter Howard Hume-Spry,JP,MSc.
DATE OF DEATH:
24-Mar-1945
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