Name
Ronald Braybrooke
Conflict
Second World War
Date of Death / Age
06/08/1944
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
14618889
South Staffordshire Regiment
1/6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY
France
Headstone Inscription
"THY WILL BE DONE"
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial, Hitchin Roll of Honour 1939 – 1945 (Book) St Mary’s Church, Hitchin
Biography
He was born and resident in Huntingdonshire according to the Army Roll of Honour. His Service Number was 14618889 and he served in the l/6th Battalion T.A. which was in the l 77th Infantry Brigade being part of the 59th Division of XII Corps in the 2nd Army fighting in France after D-Day.
His death coincides with the 59th Division's leading infantry wading the River Orne about fifteen miles south of Caen. They were in the vicinity of Brieux and under constant German attack in a deep and narrow valley.
He is buried in Bayeux Cemetery in Plot 19, Row D, Grave 17. His gravestone bears the private inscription "Thy will be done".
His parents were Sidney and Maud Braybrooke of Hitchin.
Acknowledgments
David C Baines – ‘Hitchin’s Century of Sacrifice’, ‘Victory in the West’ by L.F. Ellis
