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[Post New]23/02/2022 18:00:06
    Subject: Major Mike Banks 42RM Cdo, 42 Cdo, and Commando Cliff Assault Wing
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Pete
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9 years ago this month Major Mike Banks passed away aged 90.

Read more about him here: https://www.commandoveterans.org/MikeBanks_42RMCommando
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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[Post New]24/02/2022 13:38:50
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I can thoroughly recommend two books by Mike Banks:

Commando Climber - https://www.commandoveterans.org/commando_climber_author_mike_banks

Snow Commando, author Mike Banks, published by Burke Publishing, first published 1961.

Nick
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Proud son of Cpl Mick Collins, 5 Troop, No5 Cdo

"Truly we may say of them, when shall their glory fade?"


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