265835, Second Lieutenant, John Walter METSON
Aged 19
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John Walter METSON was born 1923 (Ely Q4-1923 3B:729), son of Walter and Ethel Maude METSON (née FOREMAN) of Brewery House, Littleport.
He was a member of the 3rd (Culford School) Bury St Edmunds Scouts. He went on to Emmanuel, Cambridge, reading law for a year and passing his 1st year exams with honours. In the 1939 register, at 6 Granby Street, Littleport were his parents, father Walter [19-8-1895] a solicitor; mother Ethel M [28-9-1899] |
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The exact location is rather vague, but the 5th Northants had 8 killed on 1st August 1943, 5 buried in Catania and 3 named on the Cassino Memorial.
One report has him leading his platoon along roads in the shadow of Mount Etna, bombarded with heavy mortar and machine gun fire John was one of several who were recovered from scattered burial sites and re-interred in Catania on 3rd April 1944 |
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