George Arnold Handley

There is no WW2 record for a George Arnold Handley on CWGC.

This casualty was originally identified as 4923484 Lance Corporal George Handley 2nd (Airborne) South Staffordshire Regiment. Died 9 July 1943, Cassino Memorial, Italy. Wife Doris Handley, Wednesbury Staffs. (Details as CWGC). The researcher had also included the information that this man was born in Nottingham in 1912.

The Army Roll of Honour 1939-1945 includes 4923484 Lance Corporal George Handley and gives his place of birth as Staffordshire and also as his place of residence in 1941. George Handley (age 9) was recorded on the 1921 Census living with his grandparents (Brockhouse) in Wednesbury in 1921, 'b. Wednesbury, West Bromwich, both parents alive'. George married Doris Mills in 1934 (reg. Walsall, Staffs) and in 1939 they were living in Wednesbury. The 1939 Register gives George's date of birth as 5 July 1912. None of the records give a middle name ('Arnold').

Details of 4923484 L/Cpl Handley removed from this record. (RF)