PETTITT, Eric Sidney William


No.7361317, Private, Eric Sidney William PETTITT
Aged 24


21 Field Dressing Station, Royal Army Medical Corps
Killed in Action on 6th June 1944


Eric Sidney William Pettitt was born in Hargrave on 17th January 1919(1st qtr 1919 Bury St.Edmunds 4a:1191) son of Bert Alfred and Lizzie PETTITT (née WALLIS)

In the 1939 register he was with his parents ( father a horsekeeper on farm), and sister Shirley at Knowles Green

He married Joan Violet P RAMPTON, in 1942 in Salisbury, later of Barford St Martin, Wiltshire. She married Augustone F MERE in 1950

His uncle Eric William Pettitt died of wounds in 1920 in UK see here






photo CWGC

Eric Sidney Pettitt is commemorated on the Bayeux Memorial, panel 18 col 3

click here to go to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website for full cemetery/memorial details


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