ARMY CDOS Thirkell-White, Derek John Plantagenet

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Thirkell-White ​

• FORENAME

Derek John Plantagenet ​

• UNIT

1 Commando ​

• RANK

Captain ​

• NUMBER

73116 ​

• DATE OF DEATH

14th-15th July 1943 ​

• AGE

26 ​

• GRAVESITE

Athens Memorial,Greece Face 5 ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

parent unit Suffolk Regiment​

born India​

son of Cap.E.Howard and Frances Cecile Thirkell-White,Snape,Suffolk​

KIA Leros​

Snape War Memorial​

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believed buried Leros War Cemetery but as original records lost 55 of 183 graves are unidentified ​