Gareth Banting
Gareth had been a curate at St Mary Magdalen Church in Newark.
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The younger son of the Revd Edgar and Charlotte Banting. Edgar was a vicar and between 1921 and 1933 he was the vicar at St Lawrence Church.
In 1921 they were living at 23 The Park, Mansfield. In 1939 they were living at Plumtree Rectory where he was the vicar. Their older son, Harry Maurice also became a vicar.
Operation Mercerised: was to support Albanian partisans to harass the retreating Germans.
From the war diary of No 2 Commando: Rev'd Banting took a party to bury Capt Parsons, Lt Coyle, Gunner Clarke and Pte Lyons. After the burial he moved forward to bury the German dead in the same position, but is blown up on a mine.
In his will he left £1530 8s 1d to his father.
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