Military Provost Staff Corps

Cap Badge of the Military Police Service Corps (King George V)
Soldier Details:
Surname: McGeachie
Initials:   W.B.
Rank:   Staff Sergeant
Army No.:  2977537
Notes:   MPSC. Enlisted in the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, transferred to Kings Own Scottish Borderers, 26/9/41 transferred to MPSC. 11/11/41 died. He was born and resided in Argyll. Name spelt McGeachie in Crozier Roll and Army Roll of Honour and McGeachie on gravestone. 21 Area Pro Coy War Diary, WO 169/15937. 11/11/44 telephone message fro SIB, a truck with 10 soldiers and 2 ATS washed away at Wadi Gaza. Casualties unknown. 14/11/44 SIB advise body washed up at Gaza Lido, believed to be that of S/Sgt McGeachi, 57 MPDB. 16/11/44 telephone message from SIB, body of S/Sgt Drew C found on Gaza Beach and taken to 91 General Hospital. Inscription on gravestone: Remembrance of a darling Husband, Father loving Wife and Daughter, Gatehouse of Fleet, Scotland. Casualty List 1612, Palestine, missing, date not reported, shown on CMP List. Casualty List 1626, Palestine, previously reported missing now reported died in accident, date not reported. William Boden McGeachie. .

Casualty Details:
Date Killed: 11th November 1944
Company: 57 MILITARY PROVOST DETENTION BKS MPSC
Cemetery: RAMLEH WAR CEMETERY   ISRAEL
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