Hi Robert
The entry in the London Gazette is still available and shows this entry :
Corporal (Acting Temporary Sergeant) ' Desmond HURST, Ply/X.3469 (Horncliffe, Berwick-on-Tweed).
on this link:
http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/37505/supplements/1441
The National Archives website shows that very few of the recommendations for Mentioned in Despatches survive:
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/wo373.asp
Worth contacting them to clarify where those that did survive are kept and how accessed. The Royal Marines Museum historical section may possibly have some detail.
If you have any photos of your uncle from his time in 40RM Commando that you would like placed in our gallery please contact me direct on my email address below or post them on this forum message.
Regards
Pete
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