Messages posted by: GUY

He served with 4 Troop, 6 Commando

6 Commando July 1943 after their return from North Africa.

http://gallery.commandoveterans.org/cdoGallery/v/units/6/No+6+Cdo+July+1943++-+doreen+hopwood+with+names+copy.jpg.html

Hello Helena,
Your photograph is of the Sergeants and Warrant Officers of 1st Commando Brigade Head Quarters. The Warrant Officers I & II are all seated, Sergeants standing. Possibly taken in 1945.

12 Commando was disbanded in 1943 and the men were cross posted to other Commando units.
Did your grandfather serve with Royal Warwickshire Regiment (5154517?) prior to volunteering for the Commandos?

Guy

PO/X 4734 Sergeant (later A.Q.M.S.) John Arthur ABRAM
27th September 1922 Scarborough, Yorkshire - 1984 Maidstone, Kent
in 1939 he was residing at 11 Deneside Terrace, Bradford, Yorkshire, with his father, mother and his older brother Frank.

He had a poem published in the Shipley Times 30th August 1944 which states he was a Royal Marine Commando.

He was 'Mentioned in Despatches' for distinguished services in the Mediterranean 1st January - 31st March 1945 (It should help narrow down which R.M. Commando?) This was which was reported in the 'Globe and Laurel' January 1946

The award of his British Empire Medal was announced in the London Gazette 2nd January 1950.
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/38797/supplement/25/data.pdf

WS18 would be a nice addition to your collection.

http://gallery.commandoveterans.org/cdoGallery/v/units/3/harding+3cdo/image_027.jpg.html

http://gallery.commandoveterans.org/cdoGallery/v/units/4/Abercrombie/hardelot1.jpg.html

http://www.wftw.nl/wireless18.html

WS46

http://gallery.commandoveterans.org/cdoGallery/v/units/10IA/Polish/Commando+from+No6+Polish+Troop+carrying+a+No_46+wireless+set_.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=1

http://www.wftw.nl/wireless46.html

Do you do Army Commando re-enacting, could you post some images?

Guy

Pete

C.T.G. Beacham are the initials on the engagement notice.

Guy

Nick,

Clifford Thomas BEACHAM
Born in 1925 Wincanton, Somerset.
Married 1945 Kilmallie, Inverness
Died 2000 Fort William age 74

In 1975 he was listed as a director of the Palace Hotel, Fort William
also Managing Director of M.Beacham & Sons Builders

Engagement notice in the Western Gazette 5th October 1945, states that he is a Corporal in the Royal Marines.

Guy

Vicky,
He was a member of the Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regimental Boxing Team. The photograph was taken in 1936, so Cpl. McConville would have been 21 or 22.
Guy

5947918 Corporal Maurice James McCONVILLE Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regiment & 7 Commando
28th October 1914 Ahmednager, India - 1976 Greenwich, London
Enlisted in the Beds & Herts Regiment in 1932
Posted as missing 20th April 1941 during the raid on Bardia
Camp 78, Italy and Stalag IVB

I can't find any evidence that he was ever married.

5884521 SHEEHY Richard Wellesley Lance Corporal Warwickshire Yeomanry R.A.C. & 50 M.E. Commando

Your grandfather originally enlisted in the Northamptonshire Regiment and transferred to the Warwickshire Yeomanry
He was posted as missing on the 25-28th February 1942 during Operation Abstention, the raid on Castelorizzo.
http://gallery.commandoveterans.org/cdoGallery/d/32707-17/Layforce.pdf

Stonyhurst XV 1937

Hedwig Kalmar born in Vienna in 1915?

Please could I ask what your father's name was prior to leaving Austria and before assuming his "nom de guerre"?

GUY wrote:Is this your father?

13801273 KNIGHT P. Pte. Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry & 10 Commando

Your father originally served with the Pioneer Corps before transferring to the Ox & Bucks. L.I. and 10 Commando.
Was your father a German national that volunteered for service in the British Army?

Is this your father?

13801273 KNIGHT P. Pte. Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry & 10 Commando

A Commando on leave has spent a long evening with friends at the village Inn. They show him the quick way home across the fields, forgetting that the local bull was loose.
The bull attcked not recognising the commando's beret. The unfortunate animal was gripped by the horns and lugged about the field until it managed to break free and bolt.
"Pity I had those last two drinks," said the soldier. "I ought to have got that chap off his bike."

The Tatler 13th October 1943

Stephane,
Les Jordan (L.C.I.(S)530) inadvertently switched the Landing Table Index Numbers for No.3 Commando and 45 R.M. Commando when he transcribed the original document, part of Lt.Cdr. Curtis' 'Chronicles of D-Day'.

On D Day 45 RM Commando LCI's L.T.I.N. were 284-288 and 3 Commando's were 289-293.

Discussing the L.T.I.N. in a thread on WW2 Talk in 2015, Colin Henderson provided a Warsash berthing plan to confirm the correct numbers. The berthing plan came from Lt. Cdr. Jack Deslandes of L.C.I.(s) 518 (284) which carried elements of 45 R.M. Commando to Sword.

http://ww2talk.com/index.php?threads/landing-craft-colours-for-d-day.58118/

Several men from 3 Commando have also been identified aboard L.C.I.(S) 289,290,291 at Warsash on the 5th June 1944.

http://forum.commandoveterans.org/cdoForum/posts/list/15/834.page

Guy