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Company Sergeant Major Stanley Elton
Hollis aged 28 on D-Day
was married + had 2 children (boy 10;Brian Elton Pauline girl 5)
Been in army since 1939 wife's name
Alice married in Feb 1932
address: 33 Henny Taylor Court Old Ormesby
Middlesbrough Yorkshire
now a sand blaster
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saw action in France 1940- evacuated
from Dunkirk; fought with 8th Army
in Egypt + 11th Africa; than invasion
of Sicily and finally D-Day- all
with 50th Div

Singlehandedly he had captured gun
in Sicily + was mentioned in dispatches
He had been wounded 4 times
before D-Day Three times he had
been asked to take a battlefield
commission but it would have
meant leaving his 50th div

A tall quiet man of simple tastes he
rarely got angry but when he
did he seemed to be colder almost
oblivious to what was happening
around him This generally
happened when men of his own
battalion- boyhood friend from
his town of Middlesborough were
killed or wounded He had
been known to cry with anger