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Looker

Arthur Vincent

Private

Rank in Normandy

14211360

Service No.

Researching

Company

Wrote In at the Deep End

Arthur Vincent Looker was born on April 1923 in Durham.


Date Wounded: Wednesday, 09 August 1944


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

Possibly wounded on patrol near Vaudry area


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.


He wrote a book on his time in the 1st KOSB called, In at the Deep End.


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


In at the Deep End on Abe Books (signed) https://www.abebooks.com/signed-first-edition/Deep-End-Arthur-Vincent-Looker-Print/30104338176/bd

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