Blessé au combat
Pte R.J. King
Service No.
3189400
Company:
Unknown
Original Regiment joined- (Based on their Service No).
The King's Own Scottish Borderers
Date Wounded:
Tuesday, 18 July 1944
Details of wounds - (Based on War Diary etc.)
Treated by 2RUR medics for GSW to right thigh. Possibly wounded by enemy fire in advance to Troarn
Robert John King was born in 1920 in Urr, Dumfries.
He joined the Army before the War and was in France in 1940 and was evacuated from Dunkirk.
He was discharged from the Army in March 1946 and was awarded his medals in 1950.
In 1952 he married Mary Jane McDonald in Dalbeattie.
Robert died in 1985 at the age of 64.
Newspaper clipping from the Dumfries & Galloway Standard & Advertiser, August 5th, 1944.
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