Company Sergeant Major Alexander Law Mentioned in Dispatches

Service Number 2693634


Campaign:

World War 2


Died:

12.9.1944

X Company, Scots Guards attached to 1st Battalion Welsh Guards
Aged 32
KIA at the battle of Hechtel, Belgium
Buried at Leopoldsburg War Cemetery, Belgium. VI, B, 2

Born at 72 Foulford Road, Cowdenbeath on 7th October 1911, to Alexander Watson and Marion Noble LAW. Father was a coal miner who died before the birth of his son. The memorial headstone details match what Scottish records have been seen.
A police constable, in the 1939 register, he lived at 127 New Cheveley Road, Newmarket with his wife Ada Laura PETCH [2-5-1914]. She later married Kenneth G.SMITH (Newmarket 1964)
He was mentioned in despatches.
Originally he was buried at Veldbeek, a few kilometres north east of Diest, but moved to Leopoldsburg War Cemetery on 16th August 1946

Memorial(s):

Country Location Name of Memorial Campaign Names Date(s)
Belgium Nethestraat 32, 3941 Hechtel-Eksel Hechtel Memorial to X Company World War 2
 Alexander Law 12-9-1944 View

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