Lord Paddy Ashdown and others at Birkinhead Memorial to Cpl. Laver, Operation Frankton

Photo courtesy of Thomas 'Bing' Crosbie, 40 Cdo RM & SBS. Bing adds " Operation Frankton Memorial…… You will already know that Cpl. Laver was one of the men captured and shot as a spy by the Gestapo under Hitler’s orders. This picture was taken at the dedication of a memorial stone to him in Birkenhead, his home town. From left to right (depending of which way you look at it of course) George Bush , Me..Bing Crosbie, Paddy Ashdown, NK, Jack Crompton (with the Standard), NK at the rear."

In Memory of PLY/X3091 Corporal Albert Frederick Laver
RM Boom Patrol Detachment, Royal Marines,
who died on the 23rd March 1943
Remembered with honour on the Plymouth Naval Memorial