LEATHERHEAD WAR MEMORIALS - WWII

Lance Corporal Peter George James Messenger
Coldstream Guards

Town Memorial WWII Panel

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Name: MESSENGER, [PETER] GEORGE JAMES Rank: Lance Corporal Regiment: Coldstream Guards Date of Death: 03/06/1941 Service No: 2662241 Grave/Memorial Reference: South of Church. [local grave no. 1836] Cemetery: LEATHERHEAD (SS. MARY AND NICHOLAS) CHURCHYARD Also his son Peter George James Messenger Died June 3rd 1941 Aged 26 Years In Memory of Peter Killed on Active Service June 3rd 1941

In order to progress on this casualty we need to know which Battalion he was in.

From pre-war Electoral Registers George (Peter) and Annie his mother were living at 22 Gravel Hill, Leatherhead, very close to the Town War Memorial.

Links

Commonwealth War Graves Commission entry

Coldstream Guards today

Ancestry.co.uk: Electoral Registers 1937, 38.

 

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e.g. a photo of him , the circumstances of his death
and of any recollections within his family.

last updated 9 Aug 2004: 12 Feb 14 CWGC links updated 7 Nov 17