Next of kin was his mother Mrs Willis of 52 Harelaw Gardens Annfield Plain.
"He suffered a fractured skull in a 15 cwt truck accident at 11.00 hrs near Horga Suspension Bridge in Northern Iceland. He died three days later in no 81 General Hospital as 23.35 hrs without regaining consciousness."
He is not remembered on any Annfield Plain War Memorials, but is remembered on page 364, Polar Bears From Sheffield A memorial book to the officers and men of the Hallamshire Battalion. Don Scott; ISBN Nu 0954126106; 2001; Published by Tiger and Rose Publications. Sheffield.
