Private Donald A Wilrycx

Donald Arthur Wilrycx was the son of Louis Augustus and Dorothy May Wilrycx, of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. He enlisted in the Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and volunteered for airborne forces.

Private Wilrycx successfully completed glider training and was posted to 2nd (Airborne) Battalion, Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry and took part in Operation Overlord (Normandy).

Pte Wilrycx was killed in action on 15 June 1944, aged 21, and was given a field burial in Le Mesnil and was re-interred to Ranville War Cemetery, Calvados, France, on 26 June 1945.

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