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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 978" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Hume-Spry </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>John Francis </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>6 Commando (2 Troop) </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Lieutenant </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>106698 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>DATE OF DEATH</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>24th March 1945 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AGE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>GRAVESITE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Reichswald Forest War Cemetery,Germany 52.A.9 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>parent unit Royal Artillery</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born Edinburgh 10 June 1920.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>resided Sussex</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>1938 Dec. 24 Passed into Woolwich.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Nov. 4 Gazetted 2nd Lieut. Posted to RA Reception Centre Ascot.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>1942. Jan. Training post at Islandmagee, Co. Antrim, N. Ireland.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>March. Married local girl Rosemary Forbes.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>1944 3 Oct. Joins the Commandoes. Hermitage Camp Wrexham, then to Spean Bridge for training.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>1945 5 Feb. On leave at home in St. Leonards on Sea. Sent to the front. Parents see him off for the last time.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>24 March No. 6 Commando cross R. Rhine to take Wesel. Missing presumed drowned.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>He is buried in the Reichwald Forest War Cemetery near Kleve on the German Dutch border.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Information courtesy of his son Peter Howard Hume-Spry,JP,MSc. </em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/j-hume-spry.2864/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/2/2864-05ce9f0492c0cb9a3a0adc99ff226b6d.jpg?1591383607" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></em></p></blockquote><p></p>
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