Name
Thomas Leversuch
Conflict
Second World War
Date of Death / Age
31/01/1944
31
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
6851978
Middlesex Regiment
2/7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CASSINO MEMORIAL
Panel 9.
Italy
Headstone Inscription
NA
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Hitchin memorials
Biography
His Service Number was 6851978 and at the time of his death he was in the 2/7th Battalion of the Regiment. He had been born in north London and at the time he enlisted was a resident of east London.
The 2/7th Middlesex were part of the 1st Infantry Division of 15th Army Group. They landed at Anzio in Italy thirty miles south of Rome on the 22nd January 1944 and eight miles north of Anzio. By the 31st January the 1st Infantry Division had made a narrow salient on the road from Anzio close to Campoleone. The German counterattacks became increasingly heavy as were the casualties. The near destruction of the Anzio beachhead was the product of poor planning, poor generalship and disputes between American and British strategic objectives.
He has no known grave but is remembered on Panel 9 of the Cassino Memorial in Italy.
He was the son of William and Elizabeth Leversuch and the husband of Mrs E. Leversuch of Walsworth near 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
