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Cpl. George Carlyle Lancaster
British Army 2nd Btn. Grenadier Guards
from:Penrith
As far as I am aware my father, George Lancaster, was part of the OTC joining the Grenadier Guards in June 1936. He was part of the BEF, commissioned in the field joining O.C.T.U. July 1940, joining the King's Own Royal Lancastrian Regiment then the commandos. He was an instructor, then combined ops taking part in several raids. In 1943 he was attached to the South Lancashire Regiment with 29 combined ops. He suffered a GSW to left thigh in November 1943 and was eventually repatriated medical category Em in March 1944, he left the army due to being cashiered in 1946, for what I don't know and only found this out after his death in 2004.

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