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22/05/2015 22:21:18
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Kevin
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Were Commandos in the far east issued suicide capsules?
Kevin
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23/05/2015 11:24:14
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Pete
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Why do you think they might have been, Kevin, and why the Far East than anywhere else? After all Germany had Hitler's execution order in place !
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Pete Rogers, son of LSgt Joe Rogers MM & nephew of TSM Ken McAllister. Both No2 Commando.
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23/05/2015 18:06:27
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Kevin
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Well Pete, I never really thought much about it until recently, I remember my father mentioning that he had a suicide capsule sawn into a button on his tunic, when I asked him why, he just said that if the Japs wanted you to talk you talked no matter how tough you thought you were, I asked him if he would have taken his, he bluntly said yes, topic never mentioned nor persued ever again.
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23/05/2015 19:07:56
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Pete
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Hi Kevin it's not something I have heard before and I am not sure that we will get the answer now as there are so few left to ask. It may well have been related to your father's time with 142 etc.
All the best
Pete
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Pete Rogers, son of LSgt Joe Rogers MM & nephew of TSM Ken McAllister. Both No2 Commando.
God and the Soldier, all men adore, In time of danger and not before.
When the danger is passed and all things righted, God is forgotten, and the Soldier slighted.
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28/05/2015 22:48:58
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John M
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I have this Fs in my collection .........some think the handle was designed to carry a suicide pill.
A big debate!!
regards
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