TEMPLE William

The following information has been researched by and is courtesy of John Barry:
1939 Register
Upton Wold Farm House & Buildings, North Cotswolds
William A.B. Temple, born 20th September 1914, Farmer, Civil Air Guard 10503

Lieutenant William Anthony Binger Temple was the son of Anthony and Gwendoline Marion Temple, and husband of Patricia Muriel Temple, of Woodcote. He was born in 1915 in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada and educated at Haileybury College, Hertfordshire. He immigrated on 22 July 1936 to Laredo, Webb, TX, after spending time in in Mexico from in late 1935 to mid-1936 as an agriculture student.

Lt Temple began service with Worcester Regiment, and was later attached to 7th (Light Infantry) Parachute Battalion, as No 1 Platoon Commander, A Company. At the start of the Normandy campaign, the Battalion completed their drop onto the DZ at Ranville by 01:00 hours on 6 June 1944, but went into action with most company’s at half-strength due to parachute sticks being dropped in the wrong location – one stick did not arrive at all. By 03:25 the Battalion had occupied its objectives at Le Port and Benouville and held it against various counter-attacks with “A” and “B” Coys being heavily engaged.

Lieutenant Temple was badly wounded in the first few hours after landing in France and later died of his wounds in the UK.
Source: https://www.paradata.org.uk/people/william-b-temple

William’s father, Anthony, was killed in the Great War.

British Army Casualty List
Died of Wounds
Army Air Corps
Temple W/Lt W.A.B. 7 Bn Parachute Regt. 130115 16.6.44
(Also shown on Casualty List No. 1475 as Dangerously Ill, date not reported – Home)

Checkendon Burial Record
Name: William Anthony Binger Temple
Abode: St Mary’s Hospital, Portsmouth and Blockley, Gloucester
Date of burial: June 19th 1944
Age: 29
Service performed by E.A. Elliott, Vicar of South Stoke

Unknown Newspaper 20th June 1944
TEMPLE – Died of Wounds, Lieut. William Anthony Temple, The Parachute Regt., aged 29, beloved husband of Patricia M. temple (nee Britton), White Top, Woodcote, near Reading.

Probate 1945
Temple William Anthony Binger of Upton Wold Blockley Gloucestershire died 16 June 1944 at Saint Marys Hospital Portsmouth Probate Birmingham 30 July to Patricia Muriel Temple widow and John Corbett Hiatt Farmer. Effects £6723 19s 5d.