Francis Joseph Martin

Royal Army Medical Corps, 3 General Hospital and No. 11 R.M. Commando Royal Marines.

He died on 14 November 1942 and is commemorated on the Alamein Memorial, Egypt (Column 83). Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder.

CWGC History of the Alamein Memorial (extract): 'The campaign in the Western Desert was fought between the Commonwealth forces (with, later, the addition of two brigades of Free French and one each of Polish and Greek troops) all based in Egypt, and the Axis forces (German and Italian) based in Libya. The battlefield, across which the fighting surged back and forth between 1940 and 1942, was the 1,000 kilometres of desert between Alexandria in Egypt and Benghazi in Libya. It was a campaign of manoeuvre and movement, the objectives being the control of the Mediterranean, the link with the east through the Suez Canal, the Middle East oil supplies and the supply route to Russia through Persia. The Alamein Memorial forms the entrance to Alamein War Cemetery. The Land Forces panels commemorate more than 8,500 soldiers of the Commonwealth who died in the campaigns in Egypt and Libya, and in the operations of the Eighth Army in Tunisia up to 19 February 1943, who have no known grave. It also commemorates those who served and died in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Persia.' (www.cwgc.org)

CWGC Additional information: Son of Bernard and Emma Martin, of Nottingham.