12 commando E troop photos

Has any one pleas got photos of 12 Commando E troop pleas 1940 to 1943 .my farther William J Cobham was with 12 and 5 Commando

Hi Doug,

Do you know when your father joined No12. Commando?

Nick

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Hi Nick
My farther was with 12 Commando from 8/12 /1940 to 22/12/1943 then posted to 5 Commando

Hello Doug

We have the memories of Sgt. John Huntington who was also in 12 Commando E Troop in the same period as your father available for you to download and read here:

http://www.commandoveterans.org/node/1685

I think you will find them quite interesting.

Best regards

John M

Hello Doug,

my father, Sgt Joseph Henry "Tim" Robinson, also served in E Troop 12 Commando until September/October 1942 when he left with Captain Pinckney and a small number of others to join the Small Scale Raiding Force and then on to 2 SAS. I'm afraid I don't have any photos of his time with E Troop but he did keep a small notebook during that period in which he listed men involved in exercises with him, on charges, rifles issued etc and Fus Cobham's name does appear. If you like I'll scan that section for you and send it to you.

If you do turn up any photos I would be very grateful to know.

Best wishes

Graham

Hello Doug,

thinking about it I do have two photos of some men from E Troop when in Dover for Operation Chess July 1941. However, they are very small and it's hard to pick out the faces for identification. However, if your father was one of the men involved (I thing about 17 were actually on the raid) you might recognise him. If you let me have your email address I'll send them to you along with a few scanned pages from my dad's notebook.

Do you have the names of any of the other men your father served with as part of E Troop or any photos of that time? I'm trying to build up a picture of my father's war time experiences and every piece of information helps.

Regards

Graham

Hi Graham
I would love any thing on twelve Commando E troop you have .I was 10 years old when my dad died the only thing I have is a copy of a book your uncles written by Roger and Anne Gresham Cook one of the uncles was Philip Pinckney it cover his time with 12 Commando will scan page and send you copy .

Regards Doug [email protected]

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Hi Graham

If you are able to additionally scan and send any information to me, I will add what we can to the website should you wish that. My email is below and on the Contact Us page of this site.

Regards

Pete

Hello Doug,

I'll send the photos and some pages from my father's notebook later today to your email address.

Hello Pete,

I'm very happy to have the photos on the site and was already in correspondence with Nick about something else and have already sent him the photos which he offered to upload. Hope that's alright - I can copy you what I've sent him if you like?

Regards

Graham

Hi Graham

No that's fine. I'll leave it with Nick. Just wanted to make sure. Thanks for sharing them.

Pete

I have added the two photos of E Troop, No. 12 Commando to the Gallery.

They can be found by following these links:

http://gallery.commandoveterans.org/cdoGallery/v/units/12/Dover+29+July+1941+Operation+Chess.jpg.html

http://gallery.commandoveterans.org/cdoGallery/v/units/12/Dover+E+Troop+12+Commando+1941.jpg.html

As Graham said, they were very small so I've tried to enlarge them slightly.

Nick