Wounded In Normandy
Lt K. R. R. King
Service No.
288429
Company:
Unknown
Original Regiment joined- (Based on their Service No).
Highland Light Infantry
Date Wounded:
Wednesday, 19 July 1944
Details of wounds - (Based on War Diary etc.)
Possibly wounded in attack on Troarn.

Kenneth Robert Reginald King was born in January 1923.
In the 1939 Register he is listed as an Architecture Student and living in Harrow, Middlesex.
He was mentioned on The London Gazette on 24th August 1943 - RESEARCHING
Official docs have Lt. King as Highland Light Infantry att. to 1st Bttn KOSB. "Lt King, our platoon officer, produced an aerial photograph which showed a group of houses clustered around a t-junction at the entrance to Troarn. A patrol of three men would be led by Lt King to recce this junction. We looked at each other with something akin to dismay and wondered whether we would survive." Lance Corporal Victor Campbell, Page 80, Monty's Ironsides by Patrick Delaforce.
Kenneth died in December 1999 in Horsham, West Sussex, at the age of 76.
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