Any ideas??

Hello

My name is Henny Vreriks, teacher from the Netherlands and i came across this site while surfing the net for british commando raids during WW2.
I think i have an extraordinary question and i hope that you or someone within your acquaintance can help me out with my quest/search.

Can you help me search for a particular person who probably fought in WW1 aswell as in WW2?
The information i have is that the man in question is buried at Dunkirk (The British Memorial Cemetry also known as Dunkirk Town Cemetry) It probably was an officer. I have been to Dunkirk last september at the Cemetry but i couldn't find a clue and only stared at 4500 names on those walls. So how can i know if the soldier was a member of a commando group? Behind their names was the regiment named in which they served.

The next thing makes the search completely difficult for me. This person seemed to be a member of a special group of soldiers (british commando's group/unit?) who probably joined or led such a raid on Dunkirk or nearby and was killed in action.
Or have there been other missions/raids with soldiers in camouflage outfit?

It would ment a lot to me if you could help me further with possible hints or answers,

Thanks in advance

Greetings from the Netherlands

Henny Vreriks

Henny

Welcome to the CVA site. My name is Bill Harvey whose father is buried in Bergen op Zoom and was killed in action liberating Flushing with No4 Commando.
The roll of honour for No4 in Dunkirk shows two officers killed in action Lieut J A MacDonald and Capt R G Pettiward.

Best wishes in your search.

Bill harvey

Now that is a tough one...
Where does one start?
Can we get any other information at all?
Just a couple of specifics may help a little.

Looks like Stéphane is going to be busy on this one :D

TO BILL

Lt MacDONALD and Capt PETTIWARD both F Troop 4 cdo has been killed in DIEPPE

Stéphane

Both these officers would have been far too young to have fought in the WWI as well.
Pettiward was 35 when he died in '42
MacDonald was 27 when he died in '42.