Posted by stephane on Tue 25 Jun 2024 03:46:39 EDT
2nd row centre (behind Henry Brown) - Magnus Flucker
Posted by Kristian Flucker on Fri 14 Jun 2024 08:03:14 EDT
Back Row 3. Mary Flucker (wife of no. 4), 4. David Flucker (brother of no. 5), 5. Magnus Flucker.
3rd Row 6. Isabella Flucker (wife of Magnus Flucker).
Posted by Kristian Flucker on Fri 14 Jun 2024 08:00:56 EDT
Far right, front - Magnus Flucker
Posted by Kristian Flucker on Fri 14 Jun 2024 07:56:47 EDT
Commando Association Edinburgh Branch
Front Row 2nd from left is Magnus Flucker, RN. He is my grandfather. He joined the Commandos in 1940 and was an RN Petty Officer in charge of landing craft at Inveraray and Oban. I believe he was attached to 12 Commando at one point.
Posted by Kristian Flucker on Fri 14 Jun 2024 07:55:17 EDT
Photo Update
My grandfather is Francis McGurk, he's front row second from the right
Posted by Siwan McGurk on Mon 10 Jun 2024 08:40:49 EDT
Photo update
My grandfather is top row, second from left - Francis McGurk
Posted by Siwan McGurk on Mon 10 Jun 2024 08:38:49 EDT
Identity of the three soldiers in photo
Hi
My Father, Gwynne Tucker, was a member of the Forward Observation Bombardment (FOB) during the 2nd World War. He was a Telegraphist and I believe he landed twice on D Day, once on Sword Beach and, I believe, once on Gold Beach. I realise this is a long shot but I'm wondering whether anyone can identify the above chaps please? Thanks in anticipation.
Lynne
Posted by Lynne Coogan on Fri 07 Jun 2024 04:59:42 EDT
David Haig-Thomas is mentioned a couple of times in the diary of my father, W.J.Milne, in March 1942 when, as a Recce Corps officer, he was attending the School of Winter Warfare at Skogar Camp near Akureyri in northern Iceland. David Haig-Thomas was one of his instructors. Here is one entry from when they were up on the glacier on the mountains above the camp:
18 March. Vindheimajökull. My birthday! The mist was down completely – we paraded on a little slope and the trudge up that slope just after breakfast almost kills one, although the rise is only about a hundred feet - but, carrying skis and all the other paraphenalia, it is completely exhausting.
Even Scott, the Chief Instructor, the man who explores Greenland and glaciers, rather feels the strain when he goes up this business of the parade slope.
It's rather amazing the few clothes that one has to wear in the daytime and when one is doing anything at all. When we were building igloos this afternoon, we were again in shirt sleeves. ...
David Haig-Thomas is mentioned a couple of times in the diary of my father, W.J.Milne, in March 1942 when, as a Recce Corps officer, he was attending the School of Winter Warfare at Skogar Camp near Akureyri in northern Iceland. David Haig-Thomas was one of his instructors. Here is one entry from when they were up on the glacier on the mountains above the camp:
18 March. Vindheimajökull. My birthday! The mist was down completely – we paraded on a little slope and the trudge up that slope just after breakfast almost kills one, although the rise is only about a hundred feet - but, carrying skis and all the other paraphenalia, it is completely exhausting.
Even Scott, the Chief Instructor, the man who explores Greenland and glaciers, rather feels the strain when he goes up this business of the parade slope.
It's rather amazing the few clothes that one has to wear in the daytime and when one is doing anything at all. When we were building igloos this afternoon, we were again in shirt sleeves. Igloo building, by the way, is great fun - one gets a good constructive satisfaction out of cutting a good snow block and then building the walls. Haig-Thomas says the walls didn't slope enough and that an Eskimo builds one in an hour with just a knife. We took quite an hour in cutting and laying the first layer.
Posted by Robin Milne on Tue 04 Jun 2024 16:30:13 EDT