Reverend Captain Gareth Banting

[Photo courtesy of Chief Pettty Officer Barry Riley RN.]

From the No2 Commando War Diary " Revd. Banting takes party from 3 Tp. to bury Capt. Parsons, Lieut. Coyle, Gnr. Clarke, and Pte. Lyons. After burial he moved fwd. to bury German dead in the same posn., but is blown up on a mine. Stretcher party finds he has died of wounds - carried back to Sarande by M.O. before nightfall."

In Memory of Chaplain 4th Class The Rev. Gareth Bernard BANTING
159706, Royal Army Chaplains' Department attd. No.2, Commando
who died age 32 on 10 October 1944
Remembered with honour at TIRANA PARK MEMORIAL CEMETERY