RN Commandos briefly serving with No1 and No6 in North Africa in 1942?

Dear all

Does anybody know of any reference to personnel from G2 and G3 sections of Royal Naval Beach Commando George, which was possibly still referred to as Naval Beach Party George working with 1 and 6 Army Commandos in North Africa?

It would only of been from late November to mid December 1942 after which most of the RN personnel of G2 and G3 returned to the UK, except for some of the officers who left in early January.

Around the 19th of November the two sub sections G2 and G3 of RNBC George moved off from Bougie for Bone in LCA and LCM. Making the trip in three night-passages, the first to Djidjelli, the second night to Philippeville and finally Bone on the last night.

They then apparently went inland and were at Souk Ahras in late November and were as far as Tabarka in Tunisia in early December but then returned to Bone in Algeria. The RN Commandos State Report for December 14th 1942 shows both G2 and G3 sub sections still on Operation Torch/ North Africa but the following week?s report on the 20th of December 1942 shows both sub sections back at Foliot III in Devon.

However the RN Commando State Reports also show Lt Redshaw (possibly a temporary Lt Commander at the time) the Beach Master of G2 and Lt Thomas Turton, the Assistant Beach Master of G2, had remained in theatre. During which time Lt Redshaw reported they served with numbers No1 and No6 Army Commandos for a short period spending Christmas day in the Hotel Transatlantique in Bone and returning to England and going alongside in Liverpool on the 13th of January 1943.

How is it possible to access the war diaries for these two units?

Also were No1 and No6 commando working as a brigade or independently during the period in question?

Griffin