Date of birth:

October 1904 (Badwell Ash/Suffolk, United Kingdom)

Date of death:

July 9th, 1944

Buried on:

Commonwealth War Cemetery Ranville
Plot: II. Row: A. Grave: 5.

Service number:

1057941

Nationality:

British

Amos William LARGENT, known to the family as "Shaker", was born in about Oct 1904 in Badwell Ash, Suffolk, England, the son of Albert LARGENT, a farm labourer, and Alice SMITH. In 1911 Amos, aged 6, his three brothers and two sisters were living with their parents in the Wurlie, White Horse Yard, Badwell Ash, Suffolk, England. In about Apr 1934, aged 29, he married Winifred Grace STEWARD from Tostock. Amos and Winifred had four children.

By 1944, aged 39, Amos was Bombardier 1057941 33rd Field Regiment Royal Artillery. On 6th June 1944, D Day, the 33rd Field Regiment, as part of the 3rd Division 8th Brigade, landed on Sword Beach, at la Brêche, Basse-Normandie, France approximately 9 miles NE of Caen. Their job was to provide artillery support for the assault force in the drive to Caen. There is a detailed deion
of the activity that day at

"...[Eighteen craft] carried self-propelled guns of the 7th, 33rd and 76th Field Regiments, Royal Artillery, which were landed after firing at sea during the opening phase of the assault. Of these eighteen craft six were damaged by enemy fire, five by obstacles and three by mines; two of these fourteen became total wrecks."

The original aim had been to liberate Caen the same day but this did not happen and the assault force had to fight its way through fierce opposition and did not achieve the aim until 9th July. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
provided the information that Amos died on 9th July 1944 and is buried in Ranville War Cemetery, about 9 kilometres north east of Caen - less than half way to Caen from Sword Beach. Amos is listed along with 16 other British soldiers on a commemorative stone at Périerssur-le-Dan, which reads:

‘To the memory of the British soldiers who died liberating this village in June and July 1944.’

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