Messages posted by: GUY

Noel,
Welcome to the forum
I have found a copy of the book
Guy

A nice photograph of Fred frpm the DT published last Friday. It was the 323rd annual Founder's Day parade. Fred had just received his Légion d'Honneur medal along with 19 other veterans.
Guy

Colin,
I have a copy of a document that lists your Father with Officers of 3 Commando who were taken prisoner at Berneval duirng Operation Jubilee.
Send me a PM and I will forward the document. Hopefully that will help with your application?
Guy

Sam,
In the photograph your Grandfather is wearing a Service Dress Tunic with collar badges suggesting that he served in the Royal Army Service Corps pre-war?
I also found a reference in a newspaper to Cyril Knowles, ex-Commando on a wrestling programme in Hamilton in 1947. Is this your Grandfather or another Cyril Knowles?
Guy

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11597644/Colonel-Bill-Etches-obituary.html

Hello Rob,
There is a photograph of 1 Troop taken in October 1945. Your Father may be in that photograph, I noticed a Commando with a Royal Warwickshire Regt. cap badge on the back row?

http://gallery.commandoveterans.org/cdoGallery/v/units/3/trp+photos/Lt+Angus+Ferguson+1Tp+3+Cdo+Oct+1945.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=1

Regards
Guy

Nice photograph of Pat Churchill from the Daily Telegraph.

Chris,
Did your Dad ever attend the Commando Veterans reunions at Warrington? In the gallery there are two photographs of 3 Commando veterans at reunions in the 1950's or 60's.

http://gallery.commandoveterans.org/cdoGallery/v/units/3/3+Commando+post+war/reunion40001.jpg.html

http://gallery.commandoveterans.org/cdoGallery/v/units/3/3+Commando+post+war/reunion30001.jpg.html

Guy

John,
I believe your Uncle was one of the 23 men of 12 Commando that shipped from the UK and joined 3 Commando in Sicily on 27th August 1943. He was wounded in action at Termoli (3-6th October 1943)
Guy

Richard Artis Jones RE and 3 Commando. MID Operation Archery. I am trying to find some information on this Commando, can anyone help?
Many thanks in advance

There is a typo in the original programme. 3 Commando middle weight was Mapplebeck. The first tournament took place on the 17th December 1942 at Weymouth. The programme for the first is in the gallery, this must have been the return match.

http://gallery.commandoveterans.org/cdoGallery/v/documents/Boxing+prog+3+and+4cdo+front.jpg.html

Sadly, Harper and Jarrom were killed in action on Sicily. Jarrom was a very useful boxer, he was Northern Command welter weight champion.

Guy

Steve,
I believe Albert must have been in the 43rd (Wessex) Reconnaissance Regiment. They were on the troopship Derrycunihy which set off an acoustic mine on the 24th June 1944. 189 men were killed and 150 were wounded.
Guy

Pete,
Thanks, I will give that a try.

He also accompanied No.1 Commando on Operation Bristle in June 1942.

Guy

Did Edward Gilling ever publish his account of the St. Nazaire raid?
Many thanks
Guy

Kevin,
I have added this for a comparison. It does look like an Inniskilling Fusilers cap badge to me?
Guy