Basic Details
Surname
Wade
Forenames
G S
Gender
Male
Information stated on memorial
Alternative forename
Gordon Stafford
Served or died
Died
Notes
Hornshaw and Fowler are the source of forename, service and death details. A local rugby player and swimmer, he was commissioned in 1940 and first served with a Field Survey Compan y in India and Burma where he survived Typhoid. Re-training as a Para in Palestine, he served in Italy with 591 Para only to be killed serving with the 6th Airborne.
Primary Service
Our References
Service (Primary - Our reference)
Unit (Primary - Our reference)
Rank / Title (Primary - Our reference)
Death and Burial details
Country of death
Belgium
Country of burial
Belgium
Town of burial
Hotten
Cemetery
War Cemetery
Year of death
1945
Month of death
January
Day of death
17
Age at death
29
Manner of death reference
Killed in Action