No.11 Commando reunion on the Isle of Arran circa 1989
Date: 03/12/2010
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Training of the 1st reinforcement of No 2 Dutch troop 10(IA) Cdo (12)
[Photo and information courtesy of the Dutch Commando Museum and Jack Bakker.]
Nov./Dec.1944. Bill de Liefde is front row 2nd from right.
Huub Langeweg is sitting to the left of the man with the beret as you you look at the photo.
Behind 2 men front and centre is a group of 3 faces. The first on the left (over the shoulder of man minus beret) is Johannes Jansen. The next person along who is over the left shoulder of the man front and centre (minus beret) is Pierre de Haas.
Sitting upright on the bow at the very back in berets and smocks are:
Sitting on the bow of the cutter (in berets and smocks):
left: boating instructor CSM Jack ROWLEY
right: climbing instructor CSM "Spider" LEACH.
Seen here are Dutch trainees. At the same time Belgian trainees were trained at the CBTC ...
Sitting on the bow of the cutter (in berets and smocks):
left: boating instructor CSM Jack ROWLEY
right: climbing instructor CSM "Spider" LEACH.
Seen here are Dutch trainees. At the same time Belgian trainees were trained at the CBTC in severe wintry conditions (7.12.1944- 12.01.1945).
Posted by Jan Mas on Mon 07 Aug 2017 09:40:30 EDT
Another identification
My mother just told me the person over the left shoulder of the man front and centre (minus beret) is Pierre de Haas who was a life long friend of my Grandfather Johannes Jansen (also pictured)
Posted by Janet White on Fri 23 Jun 2017 20:50:18 EDT
New Identification
Behind 2 men front and centre is a group of 3 faces. The first on the left (over the shoulder of man minus beret) is Johannes Jansen, my grandfather.
Posted by Janet White on Fri 23 Jun 2017 19:47:10 EDT
Recent comments
(view all 4 comments)Sitting on the bow of the cutter (in berets and smocks):
left: boating instructor CSM Jack ROWLEY
right: climbing instructor CSM "Spider" LEACH.
Seen here are Dutch trainees. At the same time Belgian trainees were trained at the CBTC ...
Sitting on the bow of the cutter (in berets and smocks):
left: boating instructor CSM Jack ROWLEY
right: climbing instructor CSM "Spider" LEACH.
Seen here are Dutch trainees. At the same time Belgian trainees were trained at the CBTC in severe wintry conditions (7.12.1944- 12.01.1945).
Posted by Jan Mas on Mon 07 Aug 2017 09:40:30 EDT
Another identification
My mother just told me the person over the left shoulder of the man front and centre (minus beret) is Pierre de Haas who was a life long friend of my Grandfather Johannes Jansen (also pictured)
Posted by Janet White on Fri 23 Jun 2017 20:50:18 EDT
New Identification
Behind 2 men front and centre is a group of 3 faces. The first on the left (over the shoulder of man minus beret) is Johannes Jansen, my grandfather.
Posted by Janet White on Fri 23 Jun 2017 19:47:10 EDT