CARPENTER, William D.


No.14648268, Private, William D. CARPENTER
Aged 20


6th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders
Died on Monday, 1st May 1944


William D. Carpenter was born in 1924 (Mildenhall Q3-1924 4A:1563), son of Ernest Francis and Florence Barbara CARPENTER (née LINNING), later of Bury St.Edmunds. His grandfather Isaac CARPENTER was a farmer from Wylde Street, Beck Row.

In the 1939 register his parents were at Wilde Street, Beck Row, father [31-1-1897] a smallholder; mother [2-10-1891] and brother Robert F [15-1-1923] assisting father. There are 3 closed records.


6th Seaforths were part of 17th Infantry Brigade, 5th Infantry Division. They had landed at Anzio. On 30th April the 2nd Northants had been overrun by a German attack on the Fortress ( a few miles north of Anzio). On the 1st May the 6th Seaforths made an unsuccessful attack on the Fortress.



photo: Commonwealth War Graves Commission



William Carpenter is buried in Beach Head War Cemetery, Anzio, Italy grave 13:H:7

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