George Frederick Willgoss

A Private with the 5th Battalion, George died on 22nd of March 1943 aged 22. 

George was born at Lowestoft in 1922, a son of George Alfred and Grace May Willgoss. In 1939 his family lived at 66 Waveney Drive. 

George enlisted in the Suffolk Regiment and was subsequently transferred to the East Yorkshire Regiment. 

At 1.30 a.m. on 22 March 1943 the 5th Battalion began an attack on Ksiba Ouest, Tunisia. The assault was to be carried out without artillery support, but early indications showed that the enemy were very alert and that the attack needed artillery. At 6.15 a support barrage, lasting tens minutes, was laid down but there was no tank support for the attack and about midday several German tanks appeared, and the situation became very difficult. The battalion held positions throughout the day despite repeated enemy attacks and shelling. 

George was reported wounded and missing on 22 March and it was later presumed that he had been killed in action.