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2nd Lt. Timothy Dawkes MiD.
British Army 2/5th Btn. Queens Royal Regiment
from:Doncaster
(d.10th Sep 1943)
Timothy Dawkes joined the Middlesex Regiment in 1938 as a private. He proceeded to France in 1939. He escaped from Dunkirk in 1940 by being tied to a rope attached to a small boat and being pulled across the Channel. He served in North Africa in 1942 and fought at Alamein where he was Mentioned in Despatches. Commissioned and transferred to the Queens Royal Regiment, he was killed at Salerno. His body was not recovered and his name is on a slab located in the War Graves Cemetery at Cassino.