Dennis Fish
He was an apprentice bricklayer in 1939.
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He was the son of Samuel and Elizabeth Hannah Fish and the brother of Ethel Fish of 201, Nottingham Road, Nuthall, Nottinghamshire.
In August 1943, the 2/7th Battalion, Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) was stationed in North Africa, staging and undergoing rigorous amphibious landing training for Operation Avalanche—the Allied invasion of Salerno, Italy.
Because the 2/7th Battalion did not launch its combat invasion of Salerno, Italy until September 1943, Fish most likely lost his life during the arduous, high-risk amphibious assault rehearsals or from illness/accident while stationed in North Africa.
As part of the 169th (Queen's) Infantry Brigade within the 56th (London) Infantry Division, the 2/7th spent August preparing for one of their most intense combat deployments of World War II.
Location: Stationed around Tripoli, Libya and Enfidaville, Tunisia. They had recently completed a massive 3,313-mile overland vehicular march across the desert from Iraq to join the Eighth Army.
Primary Activity: The entire month was consumed by amphibious assault rehearsals on North African beaches. The battalion practiced embarking and disembarking from landing craft to prepare for a major, opposed beach landing.
The Looming Objective: They were secretly designated as part of the primary assault wave tasked with striking the beaches of Salerno, Italy, which took place in September.
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