The Royal Navy Commander of MTB 344 used to take the raiders on many of the Small Scale Raiding Force (62 Commando) raids was Lt. Cdr. Frederick William Parnall (or Parnell) BOURNE. One such raid was Operation Farenheit but there also quite a few other raids carried out by the SSRF. Check out the following links:
Operation Farenheit - https://www.commandoveterans.org/operation_farenheit
IWM Interview with Bourne - https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80011466
An account of Operation Farenheit in French with photos of Bourne - http://passion.histoire.pagesperso-orange.fr/fahren.htm
However I believe he died 22 January 2002 in Hampshire but hope this is of some help.
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