Name
Francis Richard Congdon
Conflict
Second World War
Date of Death / Age
10/06/1944
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
14533183
Wiltshire Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CASSINO MEMORIAL
Panel 10.
Italy
Headstone Inscription
NA
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Hitchin memorials
Biography
He was born in Cornwall and was resident there at the time of his enlistment. His Service Number was 14533183 and at the time of his death he was in the 2nd Battalion of the Regiment. This Battalion was part of the 13th Infantry Brigade of the 5th Infantry Division attached to 6th U.S. Corps of the 5th U.S. Army.
They had been sent up Route I north of Rome against the west coast of Italy to seize the port of Civitavecchia. They met relatively little opposition, but extensive work was needed to clear up and make the port available to allied shipping. He was most probably killed by a shell, a mine or a booby-trap.
He has no known grave but is remembered on Panel 10 of the Cassino Memorial in Italy.
He was the son of Mr and Mrs A. Congdon of Harrowbarrow in Cornwall and the husband of Mrs J. Congdon of Hitchin.
Acknowledgments
David C Baines – ‘Hitchin’s Century of Sacrifice’, ‘The Battle for Italy’ by W.G.F. Jackson, ‘Orders of Battle 1939-45’ by H.F. Joslen, ‘The Second World War’ by J. Hammerton
