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Blessé au combat

Pte A.V. Looker

Service No. 

14211360

Company:

Unknown

Original Regiment joined- (Based on their Service No). 

General Service Corps

Date Wounded:

Wednesday, 09 August 1944

Details of wounds - (Based on War Diary etc.)

Possibly wounded on patrol near Vaudry area

Pte A.V. Looker

Arthur Vincent Looker was born on April 1923 in Durham.


He wrote a book on his time in the 1st KOSB called, In at the Deep End and has a special mention page here


He served in Normandy and through Europe into Germany, eventually helping repatriate those that had been made refugees by war.


He was discharged from the Army in June 1947 as a Sergeant.


Arthur died in 2016 at the age of 92 in Melrose.


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Photographs of 1st KOSB

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