Key Information
Name: Peter Walter Durham
DoB: 30/01/1917
Regt: CGS 1926-8
Battalion: 137528 5th Royal Tank Regiment, R.A.C.
DoD: 24th October 1942 aged 25
Buried/Commemorated: Alamein Memorial Column 19
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Biographical Information
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Son of John and Jennie Durham of Chapelthorpe, Yorkshire. Brother Anthony John Hast Durham.
His address in the Admissions Register of St John’s Cambridge was given as Yew Trees, Bolsterstone, Sheffield. Father was a Municipal Accountant; the obituary of his son, revealed he was West Riding Treasurer, Wakefield and had been County Accountant of Cumberland.
