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Bryan adds "Cyril Holton was my father. He was Liverpool Irish, and trained as a commando in Galashiels, where he met my mother, Isobel Young. He was invalided out of the army after a spell as a sniper in the Libyan desert, when he injured his neck during paratroop training in, I think, Egypt. He convalesced in Tanganyika (as was), came home to marry my mother, then spent 15 years or so working in Nigeria. He died in 1970".]]> en-us Gallery 2 RSS Module, version 1.1.8 Thu, 04 Jun 2026 21:50:56 +0100 120 https://gallery.commandoveterans.org/cdoGallery/d/16637-8/cyril+holton.jpg https://gallery.commandoveterans.org/cdoGallery/v/units/11/cyril+holton.jpg.html