Albert Nelson Bray
Military(Major) A N Bray was the Commanding Officer at Wortley in 1943.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Company
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
Places
- Site type: Military site
- Known as: Grovely
- Site type: Military site
- Site type: Military site
- Known as: Scout Dike / Dyke and Penistone, on some US document references
Events
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Youngs Creek, Whitley, KY, USA. | 13 May 1910 | US Documentation, including Registration Card. |
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16 July 1943 | US Documentation gives 0-655, Liskeard, vX-6887, SBS, under CO Maj. AN Bray, with Ordnance Troops 30 Officers, 724 Enlisted Men, Transport Troops 4 Officers, 118 Enlisted Men. | |
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18 July 1944 | Lt Col A N Bray was recorded in post invasion US documentation as being in charge of the Ordnance Depot 604-B based near Omaha beach as part of 261 Ordnance Ammunition Battalion. | |
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25 August 1944 | US Documentation records Lt. Col A N Bray in charge of 261st Ordnance Battalion at 0-604 -B (HQ's Depot) | |
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31 December 1944 | US documentation records Lt.Col A N Bray as being the Officer in Charge at 0-604A, B and C; being Russey, Longville and St Claire respectively. (Dated document.) | |
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Wortley | US documents, including a photograph records Major A N Bray as being the C/O during October 1943. He left sometime at the end of this month as his successor was there by 3rd November. | |
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Groveley Wood | US documentation records Major A N Bray as being C/O at Groveley Wood in 1942. | |
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US Documentation lists the 261st Battalion, 0-655, at Liskeard (Cornwall) under Major A N Bray. (No date, but it will be after his time at Wortley) |
Revisions
ContributorLucy May
Changes
Sources
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