503 Field Company of Royal Engineers and Combined Operations

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Not a commando topic as such, but does anybody know what, if anything, is the connection of the 503 Field Company of Royal Engineers and Combined Operations?

I recently bought a grouping (papers and medals) for a Corporal Lawton 2006427 and with it is a painted wooden plaque which has a Combined Ops tombstone badge painted in the middle of it?

A trawl round the internet hasn?t turned up much.

Thanks
Paul

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Hi Paul

They are mentioned as a unit building bridges in Holland on this link:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/90/a7812290.shtml

As far as the Combined Ops badge have a good read of this link to the Combined ops website to see just how many Combined Ops badges there were, and the official and unofficial use of them:

http://www.combinedops.com/INSIGNIA%20SPECIMENS.htm

Certainly some Royal Engineers worked with Commando Units. Bob Montgomery MC of the St Nazaire raid being just one