25 March 2010

228367 Capt Clive Moncrieff, 2nd Airborne Bn

228367 Captain Clive Moncrieff was attached to the 2nd Airborne Battalion when he died in Euroope on the 25th March 1944. He was 23 years old, the son of Alan and Lilian Moncrieff of Wadhurst in Sussex. He'd originally joined the Leicestershire Regiment, transferred to the Ox and Bucks and was then attache dto the 2nd Airborne. He died in the fighting in Germany and is buried in the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (UK Army Roll of Honour 1939-1945)
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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