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Tpr. Robert "Roy" Whyte
British Army 1st East Riding Yeomanry Royal Armoured Corps
from:Glasgow
(d.8th Jul 1944)
My uncle Robert Whyte (my grandfather's nephew) in the Royal Armoured Corps, attached to the 1st East Riding Yeomanry.
He was killed, aged 20, when the tank he was in took a direct hit from German artillery during the first morning of Operation Charnwood, the Anglo-Canadian offensive aimed at liberating Caen from German control.