Tom McCormack, 5 Troop, 2 Commando, Died St Nazaire

Remembering Tom today on the anniversary of his death in Rennes from wounds sustained during Operation Chariot.

He will not be forgotten.

Mark

RIP Tom

Another year gone and remembering today the passing of Tom

Not forgotten

Remembering today Tom McCormack on the 76th anniversary of his death from the wounds sustained on the raid.

This year I am posting Stephen's lovely pictures of the four friends on leave in 1941 - Sid Murdoch, Tom McCormack, Ken McAllister and Bill Hughes.

We shall not forget them.

Mark

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Today is the 78th Anniversary of Tom McCormack finally succumbing to the grenade fragment wounds he sustained at Operation Chariot some 11 days before.

By now he was at the military hospital set up in the École primaire supérieure de jeunes filles in the Rue Jean Macé in RENNES where he was cared for by a team of French volunteer medics.

According to witnesses, his funeral on 15 Apr 1942 was attended by 5,000 local Rennais, despite orders from the German occupiers against mass gatherings.

The event thus became one of the first protests against the Nazi occupiers.

To this day, Tom is well remembered in both Rennes and St Nazaire, as well of course as this side of the Channel.

We will remember him

Mark

Another year passes.

Not forgotten.

Mark

Remembered with honour

Bill

Bill,
Was up at my Mum's last November. We couldn't get to Spean Bridge obviously, so instead we left a wee poppy cross in memory of Tom and the other Operation Chariot Fallen at the Ganavan RAF Coastal Command Memorial.
Mark

Mark

Will remember them when I get up soon, all of them, as I will stop at the Memorial on my way to Achnacarry.

Bill

Remembering Tom eighty years on.

Was in Liverpool at the municipal cemetery close to Tom's home in Allerton thinking he must have people here too, then imagining him walking the area before the clouds of war broke in '39.

Have just got home and back to access to computer, so later than usual in posting here.

Not forgotten.

Mark

Eighty one years now since Tom's passing, fifteen painful days after receiving a terrible head wound during Operation Chariot, St Nazaire.

We remember him still.

A brave man who fought to the end. An inspiration to the people of Rennes and who continues to move all who find his story.

Not forgotten.

Another year has gone by and eighty two since Tom's passing.

We remember him still.

Mark