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Hartle

John Frederick Richard

Sergeant

Rank in Normandy

3189567

Service No.

D

Company

Quoted in Monty's Ironsides

John 'Fred' Hartle was born in Rotherham, Yorkshire in March 1917 to Thomas and Esther Hartle.


He married Mary J Butler in April 1943.


He served with 1st KOSB in France in 1939 and was evacuated from Dunkirk. He was an NCO in D Company, 9 platoon in Normandy and provided an audio interview to the Imperial War Museum which can be found here

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