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Dvr. Walter William "Nipper" Thurlow
British Army 463th Water Tank Coy. Royal Army Service Corps
from:Suffolk
(d.2nd March 1944)
My Great Uncle Walter Thurlow joined the Royal Army Service Corps on the 27th of June 1940. He was attached to the Royal Tank Regiment on the 7th of August 1940. He spent the next two years with No.4 Mechanical Transport Stores Depot and later the 9th Armoured Car Company.
On the 1st of September 1942 He was posted to the 17th Water Tank Company and 9 days later departed for North Africa. By the 1st of February 1943 he was with the 463rd Water Tank Company he saw out the rest of the North Africa campaign with them and also I believe some of the Italy campaign.
He was torpedoed and killed, along with half the service men on the ship, on the 2nd of March 1944.