Additional details added from collection of Tom Overbury No 4 Cdo
Posted by Peter Rogers on Sun 15 Jul 2018 13:58:53 EDT
Photo updated
Additional names added. This photo was published in The Sphere - Saturday 05 June 1943 - with the names of all in the front row included.
Posted by Peter Rogers on Fri 13 Jul 2018 20:13:40 EDT
References in Commando Assoc. Newsletters
None of the six entries in Commando Association newsletters from 1949 until his death, that have a mention of him, including the Obituaries entry, show M.C. against his name.
Sources: Newsletters 9, 45, 66, 67, 71, 89 (Obituary entry).
Posted by Peter Rogers on Wed 11 Jul 2018 11:12:54 EDT
Photo updated with location and date
The location and date are now included. An identical photo with annotation on the rear (as in the title now) was in the collection of Tom Overbury who served in No 4 Commando and is in the centre of the photo back to camera bending down. Info from Richard Elbourne.
Posted by Peter Rogers on Wed 11 Jul 2018 09:03:25 EDT
Lieut Norman (Monty) Banks
This is my father after volunteering. We have some lovely family stories of them being “mobilised “ with bicycles. Having to make their own way up to Troon (he borrowed a car) He went on the Lofoten Islands raid . His escape map silk neckscarf which was given for the raid, if it went wrong...is now framed and displayed with his medals in the Fort William Commando museum. He then went back to The Tank Corp.
Posted by Susane K.B. Balchin on Sat 30 Jun 2018 23:21:34 EDT
WJE Hill
This photo was in my granddad's display cabinet alongside his medals.He is WJE Hill, called Eric by everbody that knew him.
Posted by Paul Hill on Sat 30 Jun 2018 18:00:55 EDT
Comment noted
Thank you Margaret but Alfred Phillips was an NCO, and that man in the front row is an officer. He is now identified as Captain Alan Milne.
Posted by Peter Rogers on Sat 23 Jun 2018 17:38:06 EDT
RN Beach Commando "Nan"
I believe that my father is in the front row seated front left, S/Lt L.V.Parry RNVR N1.
Would it be possible to get a copy of this photo ??
Posted by Dieter HV Parry on Sun 10 Jun 2018 17:29:22 EDT
William Stobbart identified
His son identifies him
Posted by Peter Rogers on Tue 22 May 2018 05:52:55 EDT
Original names and identifiers
Ron Davies: rear row, far right;
Billy Moore: 4th row from front, 4th from right;
William Hutchison: 4th row from front, 8th from right
Peter Frederick Mclaughlin: 2nd row from front, seated far right.
Lt Larry Stephens: 2nd row from front, seated 6th from left
Lt John Salt: 2nd row from front, seated 9th from right
Andy Younger: 1st row, seated, far right
photo submitted by Nick Collins
[updated copy courtesy of Justin Mclaughlin, 14 Sept 2010]
** updated 4/4/11 by Pete R. Julie Warren identifies the man 2nd row from front,6th from the left, as her cousin Larry Stephens who was an officer in No.5 Cdo.
*** updated 28 Aug 13 by Nick Collins. CVA Member, David Davies identifies his father, Ron Davies. Ron remembers the photo being taken at Poona in 1945.
Posted by Peter Rogers on Tue 22 May 2018 05:43:08 EDT
