Operation Frankton Memorial, Le Verdon, France

Operation Frankton was a raid on shipping in the port of Bordeaux which was under German occupation. It was carried out by a unit of the Royal Marines known as the Royal Marine Boom Patrol Detachment or RMBPD. They were transported to the Gironde Estuary by submarine being dropped off on the 7th December 1942 to make the remainder of the the journey by canoes known as Cockles. The men were led by Major Herbert 'Blondie' Hasler who was accompanied in his canoe by Bill Sparks

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In Memory of :

Lieutenant John Withers Mackinnon

Remembered with Honour on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial

and

Marine James Conway
Corporal Albert Frederick Laver
Marine William Henry Mills
Corporal George Jellicoe Sheard
Marine David Moffatt
Sergeant Samuel Wallace
Marine Robert Ewart

Remembered with Honour on the Plymouth Naval Memorial