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2/3rd Sep-42 Operation Dryad. Raid on Alderney - 8 raiders to the rocks beneath the lighthouse. When they returned later they had the enemy's code books and seven prisoners - the lighthouse keepers, radio operators and guards.
12/13th September - Operation Aquatint..raid on Saint Honorine .
3-Oct-42 Operation Basalt Sark Channel Islands.
11-Nov-42 Operation Farenheit The Pointe de Plouezec - Raid on a signalling station French Coast.
1942 Foretop France (Foretop N Allied 1942 - 1943 NW Europe Plan to raid U-boat bases on French coast, abandoned as too impractical);
Jan'43 onwards -Forfar Raids along French coast commanded by Major Ted Fynn MC 12 Commando (there were a number of Raids titled Forfar followed by Beer -Dog -How -Love-Item)
2-Sep-43 Forfar Item. This was the 1st raid to go into France by Parachute came out by MTB.

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Service no. 129354.
Border Regiment and 62 Commando SSRF.
Executed 13 July 1943.
Remembered with honour Viroflay New Communal Cemetery France.

Operation Aquatint was planned for a night in mid September 1942 as a reconnaissance mission near Sainte-Honorine-des-Pertes, a small coastal town near Port en Bessin in Normandy. The mission was to collect information about the surrounding area, and take a German guard prisoner. After the mission and on their way back to the beach to rejoin the Motor Torpedo Boat, the SSRF commandos were fired on by a German patrol with machine guns and hand grenades. They attempted to swim out to the MTB which by now had also been discovered and was under fire and, unable to locate it in the darkness, were forced to swim back to the beach.

Hayes came ashore beside Asnieres-en-Bessin and was one of only four members of the 11-man team to escape. He managed to evade capture and made contact with a local French family who provided him with civilian clothing and contacted the French resistance. He was taken by train to Lisieux and after several weeks reached Paris, and was then moved along an escape line to the Spanish border, arriving in October 1942. After crossing into Spain he was stopped by Spanish border guards who handed him over to the Germans, and it is believed he had been betrayed by French double agent Jean-Louis Ortet, codename "Armand". Hayes was returned to Paris and held in solitary confinement in Fresnes prison for nine months before being executed by firing squad on 13 July 1943.

He was buried at Viroflay New Communal Cemetery (Yvelines France), and is commemorated at Linton Memorial Hall, near Wetherby West Yorkshire,
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Photo found on the forum posted by Stephane Saint-Martin.

RASC, 2 (Para) Commando (which in Nov. 1940 became 11 Special Air Service Battalion), 62 Commando (Small Scale Raiding Force).
Service no. 108938.
Company Sergeant Major
Reported missing 12 September 1942, found to be a PoW.
PoW number 19152.
Camp: Stalag 344 Lamsdorf.
WW2 Operations - Postmaster, Dryad, Aquatint.
Award: Military Medal.
Post war member of the Commando Association from the Isle of Wight.

(Sources: LG 37616, p3116; PoW Lists WO392/1 ; Casualty Lists WO417/73; SOE file HS9/1610/7; Commando Association newsletter 102 issued March 1996).

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Notes
His medals include the M.B.E (Civil Division).

Thomas William Winter
Born: 01-01-1905.
Died: 12-04-1995.
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Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, 12 Commando, and SSRF. There is an additional picture of him in the No.12 Commando gallery. Photo courtesy of Chris Rooney, son of Major 'Micky' Rooney. Posted by Pete R.
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The Naval Officer with his back to the camera is Commander Harold Wilkinson Goulding DSO (info from Jill Goulding).

Photo courtesy of Chris Rooney, son of Major Oswald 'Micky' Rooney . No.12 Commando. Posted by Pete R.
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Photo courtesy of Chris Rooney, son of Major Oswald 'Micky' Rooney . No.12 Commando. Posted by Pete R.
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Photo courtesy of Chris Rooney, son of Major Oswald 'Micky' Rooney . No.12 Commando. Posted by Pete R.
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Photo courtesy of Chris Rooney, son of Major Oswald 'Micky' Rooney . No.12 Commando. Posted by Pete R.
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Commander Harold Wilkinson Goulding DSO RNR is in the white shirt (identified by his granddaughter Jill Goulding). Photo courtesy of Chris Rooney, son of Major Oswald 'Micky' Rooney . No.12 Commando. Posted by Pete R.
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Photo courtesy of Chris Rooney, son of Major Oswald 'Micky' Rooney . No.12 Commando. Posted by Pete R.
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