Have You a Tiger In Your Family?
Search
Not Found? - Add an Entry
Do you have the details of a soldier not within our database?
Braithwaite, Fred
Unit : 2nd Bn
Biography :
Home address given as Leicester. Before enlistment worked in Freeman, Hardy and Willis Shoe Factory. Enlisted in 1940. Served with 2nd Battalion in Palestine, The Western Desert including Tobruk, El Alamein and Benghazi, Crete then later, Burma the Chindits. At some point was invalided sick to Cairo. Returned to the United Kingdom October 27th 1944. Was then stationed near Coventry. Posted to France in 1945. Demobbed March 1946. His campaign medals are in the collection of Leicester City Service. Information from a private source. see also entry for Carlyle Frederick Braithwaite, possibly the same.
Period of Service : 1940s
Conflicts : WW2
Places Served : & & Burma
Do you have more information about Fred Braithwaite ?
If you have any further information or photos regarding Fred Braithwaite that you believe we could publish, please click here to contact us.