Date: 29/01/2012
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Cpl. Ernest Arthur Paget
Corporal Ernest Paget served with No.4 Commando at Dieppe (Operation Jubilee). On 11 January 1945 he was commissioned Second Lieutenant (R.W.F.). In 1939 Ernest was residing in Bristol with his parents Mary and Thomas, and employed as a bus conductor and Special Police Constable. His father Thomas was disabled (leg amputation) as a result of military service in World War One. After the war Ernest continued to work in transport and was in general management positions in buses in the UK. He transferred to South Africa in this role when moving there in 1962 taking up a post of Assistant General Manager to the City Tramways in Cape Town. Member of the Commando Association (fuller details in the main archive Personnel A-Z entry).
