Updated & Revised Nominal Rolls

Thanks Pete, i came across them whilst looking for names i can add to a D Battalion Nominal Roll i have been attempting to compile, if it is of use to you i can send you a copy of what i have got so far.
Alan.

Hi Alan

Can you email me it on the email link below so i can have a look. Thank you.

11 (Scottish) Commando additions and updates.

Abbott, Gnr. Aiden.

Gnr. A. Holden.

Gnr. J.F. Kearney, 970050.

Wood, Gnr. Noel.

Gnr. J. Reynolds.

All served in the 57th (Newfoundland) Heavy Regiment Royal Artillery and 1 Troop 11 (Scottish) Commando.

Alan.

Alan Orton wrote:
Rfmn. L W. Dean 6897356 Kings Royal Rifle Brigade.

Alan.

King's Royal Rifle Corps

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Hi Alan

I have updated KEARNEY with sources here https://www.commandoveterans.org/JoeKearney_11Commando

In respect of the others what is your source for their service in 1 Troop please?

There are the following in the RA Attestation Registers 1939 whose service numbers are close.
970064 Siden Alphonsus ABBOTT (note S rather than A at the beginning of his first name.)
970158 Henry Robert Noel WOOD (RA (Field) 15 November 1943.)
970558 John Allenby REYNOLDS (RA (Field) 24 September 1943.)

I can find no 'A' Holden with similarly close number.

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Hello Pete,

It's most likely 970131 Thomas T Holden, he like 3 others named were all part of the 'First 400' who shipped out from Newfoundland to the UK in 1940.

The 1 Troop for Joe Kearney is from an envelope addressed to him from his parents received prior to Operation Flipper where he became a POW.
The other 4 all returned to the RA units either in theatre or returned to the UK on disbandment of Layforce.
Initially there were 20 volunteers from their regt. but only these 5 made the grade.

Hope this helps.

Alan.

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Hi Alan

What is the source please of commando service for those other than Kearney whose Commando service is verified by the Casualty Lists, eg. Is it a regimental war diary, official document reference, name of book and author, other website name etc).

Many thanks.

Hello Pete,

Joseph Kearney and the Hunt for Rommel by Frank Galgay with Donna Kearney Adams.

Alan.

Excellent...many thanks. I will add them now.

Out of interest I have just checked and found this website referencing some from their regiment including Aiden Alphonsus Abbott http://ngb.chebucto.org/NFREG/WWII/ww2-nfld-regt-A-surname.shtml

Gents,

I have a whole collection of documents and letters from Joe Kearney to his parents that were sent to me by a museum in Newfoundland.
I know Joe mentions the 5 Newfoundlanders who volunteered for and were accepted for commando training - but he only mentioned their names and there was no other evidence they all became commandos.
It has been a long time since I read them but will go through them again and cherry pick any relevant information...

Nick

Michael Asher in his book Get Rommel also mentions there were 20 volunteers from the 57th with only 5 completing their commando training.

3318575 Pte J Munachen Highland Light Infantry 7 Commando was reported missing 16/17 November 1941 on the WO 417 file he is recorded as 7 Commando but actually he L Detachment and took part on Operation Squatter. Within L Detachment he was with 2 Troop, 3 Section, I Group and was part of Lt. Boningtons No.4 Flight.

Within the SAS War Diary there is a Nominal Roll and he like several others suffer from mis-spellings he is recorded as Monaghen, in another Nominal Roll published in Mars and Minerva again he is named as G.S. Monaghan. The file recording him as missing is correct and he is in-fact Monaghan/Monaghen. There is also another name recorded on the File that of 2819724 Pte. R.P. Alexander Seaforth Highlanders recorded as missing on the same date it. As the Seaforths were not in theatre at the time it looks suspiciously that he was 11 (Scottish) Commando and also L Detachment, there is no proof as yet to verify this though so i continue to search..

Alan.

A few more names for 11 (Scottish) Commando, all were wounded 09/06/41 and found in WO 417 Files.

Cheshire Regiment
4130949 Pte EDM Wilson - he went on to L Detachment - SRS - 1/SAS.

Royal Artillery
L/Bdr NS Chadwick

Black Watch
4744958 Pte H Hammond
2763698 L/Cpl W MacMillan
2758951 Cpl JMP Wilson

Gordon Highlanders
2886140 L/Cpl G Edmiston
2880859 Pte JG Hay

Regards,

Alan.

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Thanks Alan I have updated those and found a bit more about a couple.

The WILSON who went onto the SAS is listed on two casualty Records as E.D.H. Wilson, one with 11 Commando and the other presumably with the 1 SAS 13 July 1943.
The Casualty Listing for HAY was amended to show initials as J.D. rather than the original J.G.
Cpl. John Marshall Prentice Wilson died in 1945 although I do not know the cause:
https://www.commandoveterans.org/John_Marshall_Wilson_11Commando

I have found another who was listed in our nominal rolls only as Gnr E.E. Tanner. I have found out from the CasLists that he died on 9 June 1941 in Syria but is not shown on the CWGC database as a Commando. Nor is he on the Westminster Abbey Commando ROH and the CasLists only show his RA unit, as do the RA Attestation Record and Casualty card.

Do you or anyone else know the source of his inclusion in the Nominal Roll for 11 Cdo ?

TANNER, Edwin, Ernest; Gnr; 1684983; RA; kia 9 june41 Syria CasList WO417/26

https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2188534/EDWIN%20ERNEST%20TANNER/