219025 Robert Michael DRAKE, 6 Grenadier Guards: 10/09/1943

Personal Number: 219025
Rank:
Name: Robert Michael DRAKE
Unit: Grenadier Guards


London Gazette : 19 December 1941
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35385/supplement/7169/data.pdf
FOOT GUARDS
The undermentioned Cadets to be 2nd Lts. 29th Nov. 1941:-
Gren. G'ds.
Robert Michael DRAKE (219025).

 

219025, Lieutenant Robert Mitchael Drake, 6th Grenadier Guards, born 16/7/21, enlisted 20/2/41, kia 10/9/43
Killed by an MG bullet to the head leading his platoon in an attack on the Tobacco factory on the Montecorvino to Battipaglia road
Details from “Esprit De Corps"

CWGC :: Casualty Details

edit: "Esprit De Corps" by W.A.Elliott of the Scots Guards

From the stevenageatwar.com website " Through the day and night No.3 Company fought it's way forward, eventually reaching a network of lanes north of Verdesca where a hail of bullets and hand-grenades brought the advance to an abrupt halt. At dawn the company again attempted to advance and became involved with a group of German tanks and infantry in half-tracks. It was at this point, whilst at the head of his platoon, that Robert Drake was killed outright."

edit: to add rank & CWGC link

 

Casualty Details | CWGC
LIEUTENANT ROBERT MICHAEL DRAKE
Service Number: 219025
Regiment & Unit: Grenadier Guards, 6th Bn.
Date of Death: Died 10 September 1943
Age 22 years old
Buried or commemorated at SALERNO WAR CEMETERY
Grave Reference: II. C. 27.
Location: Italy
Additional Info: Son of Maj. Frederick V. Drake and Betty Pauline Drake, of Stevenage, Hertfordshire.

 

See also

• War Diary: 6th Motor Battalion GRENADIER GUARDS, Jan - Dec 1943