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This message was edited 2 times. Last update was at 14/12/2011 16:11:32

Please can the undermentioned be added to the No5 RoH.

All are listed on the Westminster Abbey RoH and listed in The Third Jungle Book, issue no9 (March '46), as having been in No5 Cdo.

4537642 Sgt Haldane F H M 15/03/44
3525354 Pte Bishop J 15/03/44
5190088 Pte Hodges J R 23/03/44

None of the above are recorded as commandos on the CWGC so I shall be asking them to update their records.

[Moderator's note: This Topic was started before I took it upon myself to start compiling a No5 Cdo Nominal Roll. The No5 RoH mentioned in the first sentence refers to the CVA RoH]

Nick

This message was edited 2 times. Last update was at 14/12/2011 16:00:51

Just received the following email from CWGC:

CWGC wrote:Dear Mr C

Thank you for your e-mail of 12th November 2008.

We have checked our records and have found a reference to No.5.Commando for Sjt F H M Haldane. We have amended our database accordingly, please see below for the information we now hold:

Serjeant HALDANE, FREDERICK HENRY MILLER
Regiment: Royal Armoured Corps
Secondary Unit Text: and No.5
Secondary Regiment: Commando
Service No: 4537642
Age: 25
Date of Death: 15 March 1944
Commemoration: TAUKKYAN WAR CEMETERY
Myanmar
10. F. 5.
Additional Information: Son of Fred E. B. Haldane and Mabel Haldane; husband of Elizabeth Haldane, of Leicester.

Yours sincerely

Mrs J Williams

Enquiries Section

http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2085967

Some progress but I still have work to do on the others...

This message was edited 2 times. Last update was at 14/12/2011 16:02:19

Some time has passed since I first wrote to CWGC asking them to update their records with regard to Sjt Haldane and Privates Bishop & Hodges.
The CWGC wanted more evidence to prove that Bishop & Hodges, who fell in Burma, were Commandos.
Thanks to the wonderful Julie W [Julie Warren] , we were able to provide irrefutable evidence and today received the following from Mrs J Williams of the CWGC

Mrs J Williams wrote:Our Ref: E file, 63697
Date: 13 December 2011

Dear Mr Collins

Thank you for your e-mail and evidence of 3rd December 2011 regarding the connection to the Commandos for the 2 casualties shown below:

Casualty Details
Rank: Private
Surname: BISHOP
Forenames: JOHN FRANKLIN
Service No: 3525354
Age: 31
Unit: 5th Bn.
Regiment: Manchester Regiment
Date of Death: 15 March 1944

TAUKKYAN WAR CEMETERY, Myanmar, 5. E. 15.

Casualty Details
Rank: Private
Surname: HODGES
Forenames: JAMES REGINALD
Service No: 5190088
Age: 28
Regiment: Gloucestershire Regiment
Date of Death: 23 March 1944

Commemoration
RANGOON MEMORIAL, Myanmar, Face 12.

I am pleased to inform you that we have agreed to add No.5. Commando to the record for the 2 casualties shown above.

I am now passing these cases to our Records department, they will amend our documents/database/web site in due course.

Thank you for bringing this to our attention.
Yours sincerely

Julie Williams (Mrs)
Enquiries Administrator

Commonwealth War Graves Commission
2 Marlow Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire, SL6 7DX, United Kingdom

Thanks CWGC, but mostly, thanks to our Julie W.

Nick

You deserve all the thanks Nick for your perseverance and dedication in ensuring that Privates Bishop & Hodges have now been recognised as Commandos by the CWGC.

Julie

Nick and Julie,

Great work!!

United We Conquer

As previously stated, Ptes James Reginald Hodges and John Franklin Bishop have been recognised by CWGC as having been in No5 Commando.

http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2084381

http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2511507

We Will Remember Them.

Nick

Once again, thanks to a piece of evidence I received from Julie Warren, I have received this email from Mrs Julie Williams, CWGC.

CWGC wrote:Dera Mr Collins,
On this occasion we are willing to amend our records for the casualty below, based on the piece of contemporary evidence provided from the National Archives.

I will now pass this case to our records department for them to add No 5 Commando to our record for L/Cpl A Skeates.

Casualty Details

Rank: Lance Corporal

Surname: SKEATES

Forenames: ALBERT CHARLES

Service No: 1871381

Regiment: Royal Engineers

Date of Death: 1 November 1940

Commemoration

DOVER (ST. JAMES'S) CEMETERY, Kent, United Kingdom, Row A. Joint grave 12.

Thank you for bringing this to our attention.
Yours sincerely

Julie Williams (Mrs)

Many thanks to Julie Warren and Julie Williams (CWGC).

We Will Remember Them.

Nick

Good work Nick.

G