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Standing: 1-3. nk; 4. Sgt Joseph Henry 'Tim' Robinson; 5. Horace Stokes.

Front: 1. Jimmy Flint; 2. nk.

Graham Robinson relates, "My father always told the story that he was at home in Hungerford on sick leave, recovering from having his appendix operated on, when Lieutenant Pinckney (who led the raid [Operation Chess] and who lived in the same town) called in to see him and asked if he fancied going on a trip to France! Which of course my father did. Indeed, sure enough, dad's Soldiers Service and Pay Book shows him as being on sick leave from 18 - 31 July 1941, following his period on the 'Y' List from what looks like 11 July to 16 July. Only a small party of men went ashore that night with my dad staying on the Landing Craft - he said because he wasn't fully fit having not long had his operation - but he also said it was one of the times when he was almost killed. A bullet or tracer shell splashing into the water alongside his head as he peered out trying to see what was happening."]]> en-us Gallery 2 RSS Module, version 1.1.8 Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:37:36 +0100 120 https://gallery.commandoveterans.org/cdoGallery/d/39735-14/Dover+E+Troop+12+Commando+1941.jpg https://gallery.commandoveterans.org/cdoGallery/v/units/12/Dover+E+Troop+12+Commando+1941.jpg.html https://gallery.commandoveterans.org/cdoGallery/main.php?g2_view=comment.ShowAllComments&g2_itemId=39734 https://gallery.commandoveterans.org/cdoGallery/main.php?g2_view=comment.ShowAllComments&g2_itemId=39734 ]]> https://gallery.commandoveterans.org/cdoGallery/main.php?g2_view=comment.ShowAllComments&g2_itemId=39734 https://gallery.commandoveterans.org/cdoGallery/main.php?g2_view=comment.ShowAllComments&g2_itemId=39734 https://gallery.commandoveterans.org/cdoGallery/main.php?g2_view=comment.ShowAllComments&g2_itemId=39734 https://gallery.commandoveterans.org/cdoGallery/main.php?g2_view=comment.ShowAllComments&g2_itemId=39734 https://gallery.commandoveterans.org/cdoGallery/main.php?g2_view=comment.ShowAllComments&g2_itemId=39734 https://gallery.commandoveterans.org/cdoGallery/main.php?g2_view=comment.ShowAllComments&g2_itemId=39734
Graham Robinson]]>