Corporal 3864592 Harold Gee

Census details:
1939 Register - Not identified.

Notes:
[url=lmem.php?lmem=39]Remembered On The St. Aidan's C of E Church Memorial[/url]

Corporal 3864592 The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire) and No. 2 Commando Harold was born on the 25th of July 1920 the son of James and Jane Gee of 2 School Brow, Billinge, and was baptised on the 29th of August 1920 at St. Aidan's C.E. Church. He was a member of St. Aidan's Young Men's Class and worked at the Ravenhead Brick Works, St. Helens before being called up in August 1940 to join The Loyal Regiment. While serving in The Loyal Regiment Harold joined the Commandos which was recruited with volunteers from the Corps and Regiments to form a highly trained force to raid the enemy held coasts. The No. 2 Commandos were formed in the summer of 1940, and later in the War served in Sicily, Italy and Yugoslavia where Harold died of wounds on Tuesday the 10th of October 1944. He was 24 years old and was buried in Albania but his grave is now lost. His name is recorded on the Tirana Park Memorial Cemetery, Albania and on St. Aidan's C.E. Church Memorial. Sources:- St. Helens Local History Library, Index of soldiers killed in the Second World War; The Commonwealth War Graves Commission; St. Aidan's Church Registers; St. Aidan's Parish Magazine, November 1944; The Wigan Observer, 4th of November 1944. [url=http://sthelens-connect.net/sitefiles/billinge-history.pdf]Information Courtesy of The Billinge History Society[/url] [pic]imgs/WW2_headstones/3864592HaroldGee.jpg[/pic][caption]A dedication for Corporal Harold Gee at Haydock (St. James the Great) Churchyard Courtesy of PaulC[/caption]