Major
Andrew Alec Kyrle POPE
P/77672
25 August 1938 Promoted
to a Territorial Army Commission as 2nd Lieutenant
Posted
to the 2nd Battalion, The King’s Shropshire Light Infantry
23
December 1938 Posted to the 1st
Battalion
02
September 1939 Joined the
regular army
22
September 1939 Embarked at
Southampton
23
September 1939 Disembarked at
Brest, France
21 May
1940 Wounded
24 May
1940 Returned
to England
26 May
1940 Posted
to the Infantry Training Centre, the King’s Shropshire Light infantry
01 January
1941 Promoted Lieutenant
16 January
1941 Posted to
the 1st Battalion
16
February 1941 Attached to 30th
(Surrey) Searchlight Regiment – Royal Artillery
17 May
1941 Attached
to H.Q. 3rd Infantry Brigade
23 May
1941 Attached
to Ordnance Field Park – Royal Army Ordnance Corps
07 July
1941 Posted
to H.Q. 1st division as General Staff Officer III
04 October
1941 Promoted Acting
Captain
Promoted Temporary
Captain
02 October
1942 Posted to H.Q.
Airborne Division as General staff Officer III
18 January
1943 Promoted Acting
Major
18 April
1943 Promoted
Captain and appointed Temporary Major
21 May
1943 Posted
to H.Q. 3rd Parachute Brigade and appointed Brigade Major
21
February 1944 Promoted Deputy
Assistant Adjutant and Quatermaster General
05 June
1944 Enplaned
U.K. (Down Ampney –Gloucestershire-)
06 June 1944 Deplaned
North West Europe, reported missing and killed in Action
Medals :
1939-45 Star Defence
Medal
France
& Germany Star War
Medal 1939-45
Mentioned in Despatches –North West EUROPE (London Gazette
22nd March 1945)