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In Memory of :

Lieutenant John Withers Mackinnon

Remembered with Honour on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial

and

Marine James Conway
Corporal Albert Frederick Laver
Marine William Henry Mills
Corporal George Jellicoe Sheard
Marine David Moffatt
Sergeant Samuel Wallace
Marine Robert Ewart

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Original Mk 2 Cockle Canoe as used in Operation Frankton in December 1942, when ten Royal Marines launched an attack by canoe on enemy ships in the docks of Bordeaux.
Displayed at the Combined Military Services Museum, Maldon, Essex
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