ERNEST WRIGLEY
SERVICE NO. 2375217
Army: Signalman
Royal Corps of Signals
Attached to
Royal Artillery
86th (Hertfordshire Yeomanry) Field Regiment
Signals Section
DIED: 06 June 1944
AGE: 22
HISTORICAL CONTEXT
He was a member of the Royal Corps of Signals and was attached to 86th (Hertfordshire Yeomanry) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery.
At 06:45 on D-Day the regiment commenced its run-in shoot on the Mont Fleury battery area at Ver-sur-Mer ahead of the landings. This meant that the regiment's guns fired from their landing craft at pre-arranged targets on land in support of the assault infantry, as the craft approached the shore.
The regiment's troops then landed at intervals just after H-Hour on King sector of Gold Beach, in front of La Rivière. He was with part of 462 Battery which landed with 5th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment, and was killed as he landed. He has no known place of burial so he is commemorated on the Bayeux Memorial to the Missing, Calvados.
MEMORIAL LOCATION: Column 13
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