Messages posted by: Gavin

http://gallery.commandoveterans.org/cdoGallery/v/units/3/No+3+Cdo+Sgt_s_Mess.jpg.html

Is the CSM Ramsey one in the same man MID for Archery ? if so he was in charge of the Mortar that was brought up from the boat, and fired the rounds into the hotel which Knocker White then attacked winning the DCM.

Further to the pages it mentions Fred Burkitt who's grave pic is not in the gallery

http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2633564/BURKITT,%20FREDERICK

as well as Frederick Maskell

http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2633567/MASKELL,%20FREDERICK%20GEORGE

and Farnese

http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2633565/FARNESE,%20ORLANDO%20RAFFAELE

Hi I put these pages up before and wondered if anyone knew what it was. It reads like a boys own, covering 4 Commando at Dieppe and D Day. Also it mentions the Italian cockney medic ( Farnese) which does not mention him by name, which leads me to believe it is a private recollection ? but whose ?
Anyone help. I have also added so his relative Jayne can see it.

Victor Charles Cobley, Police Constable,
Plymouth City Police.
Awarded the British Empire Medal.
When a building at Plymouth was partlydemolished by high explosive bombs, Constable Cobley worked hard and intelligently to rescue the casualties. He then helped to release several persons trapped in the basement of a private house. Completing this task, and whilst bombing was still active, he attended to the wants of victims bombed out of their homes. Further bombs dropped during this period and the Constable, with assistance, extricated three persons from a house that had received a direct hit and was on fire. This rescue was particularly hazardous and necessitated working with the greatest possible speed. Cobley continued his work, exhibiting a conspicuously high standard of conduct generally during the period of the raid.
Later promoted to Devon R.
21st April 1944 14241816 Victor Charles Cobley (311312).

Born 1918 Died May 2000 Bristol.

Constable 273 Cobley joined the Plymouth City Police on 3 April 1939 and rose to the rank of chief inspector at the time of his retirement from the Devon & Cornwall Constabulary on 30 September 1969. Ref: The Call of Duty ? Campion 1997 page 26.

I was just looking through the gallery and saw this man's name, and I wondered who he was and what did he get his BEM for ? I will look into it.

Thought these my be of interest.

Would anyone have any info on a T R Packwood, suposed to have served in the Commandos at Dieppe, later served Palestine Police ?

Hi Brian, I found this this week.

Hi Alan I was tring to identify a book I thought it appertained to 4 Commando but it may be the dairy, type Blewitt into the site search and it gives a link to the topic. When I just did it it threw up the name C Blewitt in 6 Commando, and the chap I was interested in was Patrick Cullen Blewitt, know as 'PUG' Blewitt.

I found this cutting on Johnnie Dowling MM interesting he says the troops in the Normandy fighting were not as tough as one he had previously encounted, presumably in Italy, Herman Goring division.

That ties up with his date of death.

Has anyone any pictures or information on this man, 3 Commando, Policeman also a Commano Association Old Comrade (number 5650). Does anyone know anything of him, he died in 1975 in Wolverhampton.

Any thoughts ??

Never got any further with the identification of the book, any ideas ???

His Medals and Dog Tag. In private collection, not mine unfortunately.