Private Alec Fitton

Alec Fitton, son of Robert and Mary Fitton, of Hopwood, Heywood, Lancashire, enlisted into The Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburgh’s). He later volunteered for airborne forces.

Private Fitton successfully completed parachute training on course 121 at RAF Ringway from 19 June to 1 July 1944. His course report stated ‘Keen and cheerful’. He was posted to A Company, 13th (Lancashire) Parachute Battalion.

He took part in the 6th Airborne Division response to the German counter-offensive in the Ardennes, during Winter 1944-5.

Pte Fitton was killed in action on 3 January 1945, aged 19, and was buried in Bure, Tellin, (Belgium) temporary burial ground. He was later reinterred in Hotton War Cemetery on 21 May 1947.

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