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<description><![CDATA[[This nominal roll of C troop No.4 Cdo. is courtesy of John Martin, nephew of the late Sgt Donald Martin formerly of C troop and 1 troop No.4 Cdo]. <br />
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John adds the following:<br />
Capt. David Style, who had been awarded the MC at Dieppe, was badly wounded in Normandy accepting a purported surrender by a group of Germans. <br />
Lt Oscar Wilson also survived the war and became a London antiques dealer. <br />
Lt David Haig-Thomas, a noted pre-war naturalist and explorer, was killed in the early hours of D-Day having parachuted in with the airborne forces as a liaison officer. <br />
CSM Peter King went on to be commissioned in the field in Normandy, and was awarded the MC in Holland. <br />
Cpl Paddy Byrne, one of C Troop's snipers, appears in an iconic photo being stretchered on an old door. In fact he had been shot in the buttock as a result of &quot;friendly&quot; fire.<br />
Cpl Bill Finney had been awarded the MM at Dieppe.<br />
Pte Owen Hooper was later to be killed in the fighting in Flushing, as a result of a booby-trapped door. (My uncle, Sgt Donald Martin, was crouched next to him at the time.)<br />
Pte Bill Johnson was also a sniper, survived the war and became a Hull trawlerman. <br />
L/Cpl Duncan McCubbin was one of a number of the police intake in C Troop, survived the war and ultimately became a <br />
chief superintendent with Liverpool Police.<br />
Tpr Marron, another former policeman, earned the nickname &quot;Mirror&quot; in house-to-house fighting in Flushing when he discharged a whole magazine from his TSG into a wardrobe mirror, having caught site of his reflection in it. <br />
Pte Robert Ong, who was Capt Style's runner, was killed on leaving his landing craft on D-Day. <br />
Gdsm Joe Powell survived the war and went on to work in the film industry. Ironically, he arranged many of the explosions in the film &quot;the Longest Day&quot;.<br />
Pte Sievewright was killed trying to recover Capt Style.<br />
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The service number for Pte. W. Jones is that of LCpl G.E. Jones RAC and No.4 Commando.<br />
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The following additional surnames are placed here to enable results in gallery search facility for this roll : allen, anderson, bailey, bain, bend, bray, burke, clewes, douglas, frazer, gibbs, gilchrist, goff, humpries, jenson, johnson, horne, ironside, jones, lambley, lane, long, lonsdale, lye, lynne, mccormack, mcdougall, mcwhirter, merricks, mahan, marron, madra, martin, morris, myers old, o'kelly, roberts, ryder, shaw, skingley, spearman, tudor, tyreman, tyson, wallis, walsh, ward]]></description>
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