Dieppe raid picture - identification

So now for No.3 Cdo members.. if I'll find him, will post it here asap.

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I just came through all the No.3 Cdo photos here on web.. but didn'd find him.
I have some tips, but the pictures are unclear or blur.

Like this one.
The man standing on LCI has the very similar cheek chape, but the picture is so unclear I can't identify him for sure.
Anyway, I didn't find him amongst the 4. 5. or 6. troop pictures.

Hello, I?m Len Ruskin?s nephew and this commando does resemble Len but I?m not 100%. The images of Len that appeared in the Daily Express 21/08/1942 show him with a trouser leg missing and holding a tommy gun. I can not distinguish either of these features. I would love to find out more regarding Len?s service after Dieppe. He did not talk that often but when he did it was always regarding small raids so I wonder if he moved from 4 commando after Dieppe. I and Len?s two sons , Pete and Jim would love to find out more.

Regards

Trevor

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Hi Trevor and welcome to our Forum.

The Family should apply for a copy of his service record. How to do so can be found on the link below. If the nearest next of kin applies a full photocopy of the record will be provided. If anyone else does only a transcript with limited detail will be provided. Despite what some paysites say only the MOD can provide the full copy via their various disclosure cells for Army, Navy, and RAF. Your Uncle Len was Army.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/request-records-of-deceased-service-personnel

Additionally I have found an entry in one of the original Commando Association's newsletter, no 65 of September 1977, where your Uncle mentions his son Peter then aged 16 endeavouring to get a mechanical engineering apprenticeship and looking for members with contacts, and also mentions his Olympic hopes in canoeing. I note in the following March newsletter that there had been a "wonderful response". Hope it all worked out.

Do you have a good photo of your Uncle that we could add to the gallery ?

Thanks for this Pete, I?ll help my cousins with a next of kin application. As for photos, the one already posted is the best really it appeared on page two of the daily express 21/08/1942. A framed copy was on Len?s wall. There is another image from Newhaven and two of him at Dover after operation Abercrombie. The torn trouser one is the best though. If you want something more recent then I?ll have a dig about. Peter DID get an engineering apprenticeship down on the south coast somewhere and he was and still is a very good canoeists . I?m sure I?ll be in touch once we have Len?s records.

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11000189 RUSKIN Leonard James Gunner Royal Artillery

Trevor,

Len was still with B Troop prior to D-Day, he is in the photograph at Bexhill, May 1944.

http://gallery.commandoveterans.org/cdoGallery/v/units/4/troop+photos/b+trp/4Cdo+BTroop.jpg.html

He was wounded in action in Normandy on the 8th June 1944.

Thanks for this. I had seen it before and spotted Len but the copy on 4 commando FB group did not have a date at the bottom. I knew that he had been wounded on or soon after D day but it?s nice to have a date. All should be revealed when we get his records. Thanks.

Trevor