Fusilier Robert Woodman, No.2 Commando 6 troop kia 28/3/42 St. Nazaire.
[Photo courtesy of Captain Michael Burn MC (No.2 Cdo) via the author James Dorrian].
Fusilier Robert Woodman, 6 troop, was reported missing on 28 March 1942 after Operation Chariot at St Nazaire, later presumed killed in action. He had embarked for the raid on motor launch ML 192 and has no known grave. Son of Mrs. A. Woodman, of Battersea, London.
Sources
CWGC.
Casualty Lists / National Archives files WO417/41 (1942) and WO417/94 (1945).
St Nazaire Society website.
In Memory of 6467448 Fusilier Robert Salonicka Woodman
Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)and No.2 Commando
who died on 28 March 1942
Remembered with honour on the Brookwood Memorial.
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