Posted by Jackie Birtles on Mon 22 Jan 2024 13:28:58 EST
photo Ken Young
Kate think my dad Alan "Mitch" Mitchell serve with you dad got photo of whet looks like reunion "Ken"
Posted by kenneth mitchell on Wed 03 Jan 2024 17:22:27 EST
These men are from the U.S.29th Provisional Rangers
(intake 01.02.-04.03.1943).
They are wearing their one-piece herringbone coveralls and
leggings.
Posted by Jan Mas on Thu 30 Nov 2023 06:40:05 EST
Reply for Dave re Woodcock
Bernard Edward Woodcock, Suffolk Regiment, s/n 76597, served in No.1 Commando with Lt Col Tom Trevor hence the US Rangers connection, then 4 Special Service (Commando) Bde., finally CBTC.
Posted by Pete Rogers (Admin) on Thu 23 Nov 2023 18:11:27 EST
No 4 is Lt.R.W.Pantall MM, 3Cdo and CBTC
See also "CBTC Officers'Mess 1945"
He is also to be seen in the 1945 IWM film "Story of the Green Beret", leading the attack from LCA's on Loch Lochy.
Posted by Jan Mas on Tue 21 Nov 2023 12:04:10 EST
Comment from Richard Straw
Richard Straw identifies his grandfather as standing at the end of the middle row on the right - PLY/X2187 Sergeant (ATy) Maurice Kenneth Straw.
Posted by Pete Rogers (Admin) on Mon 06 Nov 2023 05:33:44 EST
Standing, 4th from left, directly behind the newspaper is PLY/X2187 Sergeant (ATy) Maurice Kenneth STRAW.
Posted by Richard Straw on Tue 24 Oct 2023 09:08:14 EDT
Ernest Arthur Paget
7th from left 2nd row (tallest one in the middle) is my father Ernest Arthur Paget. He was in No. 4 commando and took part in the Dieppe raid. His service book shows him as being in HOC from December 1943 to January 1945
Posted by Philip Hugh Paget on Mon 09 Oct 2023 05:23:43 EDT
Pillion
The pillion rider is Alistair Kirkman.
Posted by Dr Ian Frayling on Wed 06 Sep 2023 04:35:25 EDT
A[listair] Kirkman
Alistair Kirkman's wife was my late father's secretary at Perkins Diesel in Peterborough. Alistair gave me the maps he used in Normandy in 1975, and after his decease his widow gave me his green beret, badges and some photos. On 20th July he is noted as having been evacuated due to a severe skin rash. Both he and his widow related to me that he had been badly burned due to a mortar attack exploding the petrol tank in the jeep he was driving. He certainly had burns and after I qualified in medicine, by coincidence, I happened to live near the Manchester Skin Hospital where he had been treated.
Posted by Dr Ian Frayling on Wed 06 Sep 2023 02:59:33 EDT