- SURNAME
Pope
- FORENAME
Andrew Alec Kyrle
- UNIT
HQ 3 Parachute Brigade (DAAQMG) (King's Shropshire Light Infantry,attached)
- RANK
Major
- NUMBER
77672
- DATE OF DEATH
6th June 1944
- AGE
25
- GRAVESITE
St Vaast-en-Auge Churchyard,France Grave 1
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
born 19.6.1918 Pembrokeshire
resided Sussex
son of Cdr Rowland Kyrle Cecil,RN and Agnes Jessie Pope,Much Marcle,Herefordshire
commission,Territorial Army 25.8.1938
posted 2 Bn KSLI
1 Bn KSLI 23.12.1938
Regular Army 2.9.1939
WIA 21.5.1940 France
Infantry Training Centre,KSLI 26.5.1940
Lieutenant 1.1.1941
1 Bn KSLI 16.1.1941
30 (Surrey) Searchlight Regiment,R.A. 16.2.1941
HQ 3rd Infantry Brigade 17.5.1941
Ordnance Field Park,R.A.O.C. 23.5.1941
GSO III,HQ 1st Division 7.7.1941
A/Captain 4.10.1941
T/Captain
GSO III,HQ Airborne Division 2.10.1942
A/Major 18.1.1943
Captain and T/Major 18.4.1943
Brigade Major,HQ 3rd Parachute Brigade 21.5.1943
Deputy Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster General,HQ 3 Parachute Brigade 21.2.1944
award Mention in Despatches
KIA Normandy
DATE OF DEATH:
06-Jun-1944AWARD:
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