Posted by Pete Rogers (Admin) on Sat 01 Apr 2017 18:41:23 BST
Service
Family contribution, Joined the Duke of Cornwalls Light Infantry in the late 1930s posted to Aldershot and was a PE instructor and cross country runner. Volunteered for the Commandos about 1941 and sent to Achnacarry Scotland for training.
Known to have served in Burma, Norway, India and Madagascar.
Mentioned in Dispatches in a Burma operation probably on Hill 170 in support of No 1 Commando.
Posted by Philip K Johns on Sun 19 Mar 2017 12:33:52 GMT
Photo updated
Details of casualties added
Posted by Pete Rogers (Admin) on Thu 16 Mar 2017 22:20:14 GMT
I think that this group is from the RM Commando, latterly 40 RM Commando. There is a similar photograph in Jeff Beadle's book,the Light Blue Lanyard which shows the group dressed the same and the Platoon Commander with a walking cane of some sort. The Commando called for trained volunteers from across the Royal Marines and that included 102 RM Brigade which had an Argyll battalion to bring the brigade up to strength. As the Argylls were serving with the Marines they were considered eligible to volunteer for commando training. The rig in the RM Commando in the early days at the Depot Deal was as you see in the photograph - cap comforter, toggle rope and leather jerkin over battle dress.
Posted by George Gelder on Tue 14 Mar 2017 18:05:20 GMT
Photo updated
3 more names added
Posted by Pete Rogers (Admin) on Tue 07 Mar 2017 20:32:03 GMT
Photo updated
New higher resolution copy added.
Posted by Pete Rogers (Admin) on Wed 01 Mar 2017 16:11:53 GMT
Photo update
I recognise my father Arthur Baseley in this photo. He is in the back row. 5th man in from right to left. I am not 100% sure but I believe the man to his right is Jack Cox. This must have been taken before they went to Achnaccary
Posted by Anne George on Mon 20 Feb 2017 18:22:14 GMT
Photo updated
Names added.
Posted by Pete Rogers (Admin) on Fri 17 Feb 2017 18:01:24 GMT
I will have a try:
2= Major Bill Boucher-Myers
8= Lt. Kenneth Wright
11= Capt. Alastair Thorburn (now with mustache !)
Posted by Jan Mas on Fri 17 Feb 2017 11:20:56 GMT
Photo updated
Additional detail re Jan van Woerden added
Posted by Pete Rogers (Admin) on Wed 15 Feb 2017 21:09:11 GMT
25 : E G Rushton
L/Cpl Edward G Rushton 14241694 Lancashire Fusiliers
2nd Police intake. Served as a Police Constable at Colne in Lancashire.
Posted by Guy Hudson on Mon 13 Feb 2017 17:49:02 GMT
Pte Norman Carter (on right) service number 14997249. Served with 1/5 Commando. Photo possibly taken in Hong Kong.
Posted by Trevor Carter on Mon 13 Feb 2017 07:44:28 GMT
Standing in the middle with denison smock and beret with "hackle": CSM Robertson, the foreign weapons instructor
Posted by Jan Mas on Wed 11 Jan 2017 11:02:08 GMT
Ryan Price
Sorry if it's been said many times, but Ryan Price is the famous Racehorse trainer. My father, Albert Charles Green, I believe was in his unit.
Posted by Mike Green on Sun 08 Jan 2017 11:45:48 GMT
Comments noted - photo updated
Surname changed to Osmond.
Posted by Pete Rogers (Admin) on Sun 01 Jan 2017 22:20:20 GMT
No 3 Commando - Troop photo
Correction .... the person in position 7 in row 2 is Captain Geoff Osmond ... not Osborne
Posted by John Osmond on Sun 01 Jan 2017 12:03:16 GMT
Photo updated
Also known as Robin Farmiloe.
Posted by Pete Rogers (Admin) on Mon 19 Dec 2016 21:20:31 GMT
Comments noted
The original id in the first comments are indeed wrong as by the date stated July 1944 Capt. Grewcock was dead. The Combined Ops website also has a photo of Capt Grewcock and this is not him. However on the date suggested, is that not Lt Col Peter Young, 5th from the left. If so then this photo has to be before the 2nd October 1944 as on that date he was on way to Malta and then onward to operations in the Far East with 3rd Special Service Bde.
Posted by Pete Rogers (Admin) on Wed 07 Dec 2016 22:32:19 GMT
This photo was most probably taken in early 1945 in Holland or Germany.
The RM officer is not Capt. E.E.D. GREWCOCK: he was KIA on 12/6/1944 in Normandy. His Photo can be found in the IWM photographic library under N° H 39030.
This photo is also reproduced on p.51 of the book "Eric Harden VC" by Julia Harden
Posted by Jan Mas on Tue 06 Dec 2016 21:09:01 GMT
Seated L/R: x; x; Bill de Liefde (Dutch);Viscount A.de Jonghe (Belgian); x; x;
