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Thank you Andy much appreciated and yeh I know what you mean by our colonial cousins haha

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Ive recently purchased a 2nd pattern commando dagger and attached was a tag with a gentlemen's name and service number. I have found out that this man was William R Dugger service number 35695389 who enlisted in the US army on January 28th 1943. The bit im struggling with is where he saw service and where to find this info as I feel now I have this knife if his feel I should pay tribute to the man that possibly could have carried it into combat. I suspect that he may have came to the UK prior to D-Day in which he would have purchased the Wilkinson knife as many US soldiers did but I have no hard evidence to support this.

if Anyone has any info or can point me in the right direction that would be much appreciated

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I am trying to find out anymore information and ultimately maybe a photo of my Great Grandfather.

His details are 4685607 LCpl Herbert Allen Boynton, 4th Battalion Berkshire Regiment and he mortally wounded and died from enemy action on the withdrawal from Dunkirk. He has a war grave in Letcombe Regis, Oxfordshire. Like I said my main aim is to try find out the Battalions withdrawal  route, likely places he could have sustained his wounds and if there is any photos of the battalion and even better of him.

This is all fascinating and cant thank you all enough for helping with this and just highlights there are some decent people in the world still. Im fairly knew to all this so do records get difficult to trace/ find before a certain date?