Dave Cumings wrote:Very sadly, Joe Burnett died this week aged 88 in South Shields. He was my uncle and always an inspiration to me when growing up. The funeral is on Monday 27th April in South Shields.
Kevin,
As far as I can establish, the Commando Mountain & Snow Warfare Training Camp CMSWTC), at Braemar Aberdeenshire was commanded by Sqn Ldr Frank Smythe (RAF), with Maj John Hunt as Chief Instructor.
The name changed (slightly) to Commando Mountain Warfare Training Camp (CMWTC) and it moved to Llanrwst in North Wales where it was commanded by Geoffrey Rees-Jones, No5 Cdo,
In December 43 it made its final move to St Ives in Cornwall.
aberdeenshire.gov.uk/archaeology wrote:The Cairngorm Mountains offered perhaps
the most suitable terrain for crosscountry
ski training. Numerous (Commando) units
were trained in mountain warfare in this
region, based in a large training camp in
Braemar (now a caravan site).
Just a quick observation, you both talk of William (Bill) Chudley as a Lance Sergeant but the CWGC has him as a Lance Bombardier - don't know if that has any significance to Mark's research...