Looking for info on the Commandos on the Palermo to Messina railway raid in Aug.1941

Hi All

Anyone with info with sources etc. on the individuals shown on this raid can you post it here please. All were taken prisoner. There have been other forum messages but its additional details on the individuals now that I am looking for. If you click on the highlighted names on the page it will take you to their profiles I have added which contain awards etc.

http://www.commandoveterans.org/raid_sicily_railway_bridge

Thanks

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SCHOFIELD Dudley Raymond Lt. D.S.O. 74801 Royal Fusiliers
31.10.1919 Hambledon, Surrey - 4Q 1997 Spalding, Lincolnshire
OFLAG IX A/Z Rotenburg An Der Fulda

DE NOBRIGA Derrick John Sgt. D.C.M. 6896540 K.R.R.C.
17.8.1919 Lambeth - 2Q 2006 Reading, Berkshire
Stalag 344 Lamsdorf Pow No. 220792

BROWN Robert Hall L/Sgt. M.M. 2879761 Gordon Highlanders
1913 Edinburgh - 20.4. 1952 Jedburgh
Stalag 344 Lamsdorf

MORRIS Luke John Cpl. M.M. 7014390 Royal Ulster Rifles
15.3.1919 - 3Q 1980 Fulham
Stalag 344 Lamsdorf
(London Gazette lists Regiment as R.A.S.C., casualty list states R.U.R.)

MORGAN Francis Cecil L/Cpl. M.M. 6468099 Royal Fusiliers
16.2.1917 - 2Q 1992 Enfield
Stalag 344 Lamsdorf

ANDREWS Albert Mailly Rfm. M.M. 6916421 Rifle Brigade
18.2.1917 - 18.2.1979 London
Stalag VIIIB Teschen

DAVIES H. Cpl. London Scottish

Addition to the party :

FERGUSON John Ronald Alexander L/Cpl. M.M. 2880192 Gordon Highlanders
1915 - 2007 Jedburgh
Escaped from Campo 102 L'Aquilla on 12th September 1943 (Escape & Evaders WO208/5396 Report No. IT/AF/584)
Military Medal London Gazette 27th April 1944 p. 1927

I have been unable to find any reference to Cpl.H.DAVIES London Scottish.
With the inclusion of L/Cpl Ferguson it makes an eight man team. (Folbot 4 x 2 man teams?)

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Hi Guy

Thanks for that. I note that the Missing belvd POW extract shows them as 1st SS Bn. I cannot find any reference to them in the 2 Commando War Diary from February 1941 onwards. 1st SS Bn was a short lived designation defunct so to speak in August 1941. This may suggest they left for Malta earlier than I had thought during that period of the 1st SS Bn. that went onto become 2 Commando.

Is there a casualty list or prisoner of war reference for the content above relating to the Camps ?

Pete

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I have now got Ferguson's citation and I note that his unit is shown as the Special Service Military Detachment attached to Submarines at Malta.

A quick check on that unit brought up this good site if you want to learn about Malta.

https://maltagc70.wordpress.com/about/

From their website:

COVERT OPERATIONS TROOPS SENT TO GOZO FOR ?PICNIC?

The Independent Company, Special Service Battalion has been sent to Gozo as part of operation 'Picnic'. The codename refers to the military detachment posted to defend Malta's sister Island, thought to be the destination for an imminent Axis invasion. The Battalion is specially trained in covert sea to land operations. They arrived in Malta in January to take part in February's Operation Colossus, the attempt to destroy a viaduct near Naples. The Specials' role was to help transfer the paratroops to a submarine for transport back to Malta. The Company is normally based at HMS Talbot, the submarine base on Manoel Island.

Pete,
The Pow references all are extracted from;

WO 392/1 - 'Germany & German Occupied Territories, Imperial Prisoners of War; Section 1 - British Army. September 1944.

Later casualty lists refer to 2 Commando.

Guy