I was just examining this photo and realised that one of the faces difinately appears in the No1 panorama, it is N.Piglot his number in the panorama being 450. I will include his name in the list that is attached to this photo.
Andy Maines
Posted by Andy Maines on Tue 18 Jan 2011 21:08:39 EST
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No 19 is my father Frank Edmund Allum born 9th May 1919, died 26/2/1980. He had 2 children, my sister Valerie and myself. He joined the Royal Artillery Territorial Army in May 1939 and was posted to 99th Field Regiment September 1939. Joined BEF and was evacuated from the eastern mole at Dunkirk on the night of 1/2 June 1940 on the Winchelsea. 6th July posted to 145th Field Regiment Royal Artillery, stationed at Bangor NI where he volunteered for the Commandos. 9th August 1940 posted to 12 Commando, was involed in raids, notably on the French coast at Ambleteuse July 1941 and Operation Anklet on the Lofoten Islands Dec '41. 12 Commando was disbanded in July 1943 and he was posted to 1 Commando at Winchester, hence his apprearancre in the photograph. He was in Burma from Jan 44 to November 44 where he was involved in 3 landings, 2 against enemy forces. He...
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No 19 is my father Frank Edmund Allum born 9th May 1919, died 26/2/1980. He had 2 children, my sister Valerie and myself. He joined the Royal Artillery Territorial Army in May 1939 and was posted to 99th Field Regiment September 1939. Joined BEF and was evacuated from the eastern mole at Dunkirk on the night of 1/2 June 1940 on the Winchelsea. 6th July posted to 145th Field Regiment Royal Artillery, stationed at Bangor NI where he volunteered for the Commandos. 9th August 1940 posted to 12 Commando, was involed in raids, notably on the French coast at Ambleteuse July 1941 and Operation Anklet on the Lofoten Islands Dec '41. 12 Commando was disbanded in July 1943 and he was posted to 1 Commando at Winchester, hence his apprearancre in the photograph. He was in Burma from Jan 44 to November 44 where he was involved in 3 landings, 2 against enemy forces. He was then posted to Ceylon (Sri Lanka) and then to India, returning to UK in March 1946. A fascinating life that he never spoke to me about. I was only vaguely aware he was in the Commandos and later assumed that as a young boy that was wisheful thinking on my part as in the early post-war years the Commandos occupied a very special, exciting and glamnorous position in everyone's minds, especially young boys. I found out all the above a long time after his death which is a great pity to me.
Posted by Richard Allum on Sun 09 Jan 2011 20:01:04 EST
message from John Davies
*** Photo updated.Register and post a message on our Forum if you have any relevant photos*** Number 247 is my dad Victor Oliver Davies (known as Vic) He passed away on the 6th Dec 2010.
John Davies (son)
Posted by Pete Rogers (Admin) on Thu 16 Dec 2010 13:37:04 EST
Ltn Thursby's death is mentioned in the "Third Jungle Book" issue No.8 date Sep 1945, in the No.5 Troop Notes section, page 26.
"The sudden passing of Lieut. Thursby was agreat blow to the Troop we offer our sincerest condolences to his family on their great loss"
Posted by Andy Maines on Tue 29 Jun 2010 15:05:22 EDT
No. Commando panorama photo, number 16
*** Photo updated.Register and post a message on our Forum if you have any relevant photos*** No.16 is my father, Joseph Shaw. He was born in 1918 in the East End of London and died in 1988 aged 69. He has four children (myself and three daughters), eight grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren.
Posted by Joe Shaw on Mon 31 May 2010 07:28:34 EDT
Father
Hi,
Don't know who did these pictures but I'm the son on A. Wogel in the picture, trying to find anyone who knew him, and what happened to him in North Africa, all we know he was wounded and came home a diffrent man, he had totally changed.
Please contact me if you have any info. [email protected].
Paul
Paul Wogel
Posted by PAUL WOGEL on Thu 06 May 2010 08:57:06 EDT
Albert Bilham
Hi this is Albert Bilham's grandson, i see him pictured above and was wondering if anyone had any info on him or other pictures
Posted by david ronald on Tue 06 Apr 2010 17:32:13 EDT
Idris Jones recently examined this photo (of which he has an original copy) and thought that the unknown man might be called Lewis.
Posted by Andy Maines on Sun 06 Dec 2009 21:16:19 EST
Lt Hemming led the raid on Luc St Mere, code named Operation Chopper, in Sep 1941. Two men were killed on this raid and are buried in a local Catholic church, when Lt Hemmings died in the early 1990's his ahes were, in accordance with his wishes, buried next to the graves of his two lost men, whom he never forgot.
Posted by Andy Maines on Sat 05 Dec 2009 12:28:29 EST
The tall man on the extreme right of this photo is Eddie 'Fitzy' Fitzgerald.
Posted by Andy Maines on Mon 30 Nov 2009 20:20:21 EST
My father Hugh Maines is situated on the extreme right, second row from the back, third in from the right
Posted by Andy Maines on Thu 01 Oct 2009 18:45:03 EDT
Standing to the right of picture Henry Brown OBE
Directly to the left of the Mayor Jim Crowe MM
Next left Reg Teager
Next left Sgt Arthur'Happy' Jackson
Posted by John Mewett on Thu 10 Sep 2009 07:11:14 EDT
I have been contacted by John Mewett, who thinks that he may be able to identify the man standing next to my father. He has stated that he has quite a strong resemblence to the man standing at the extreme left of his Cocanada 2 group photo, if this is the case then the man in my photo is called Simmonds. I must admit that the two men are quite similar to eachother.
Posted by Andy Maines on Mon 24 Aug 2009 19:38:13 EDT
This photo is possibly of the same raiding party that is shown in a photo previously uploaded by Nic conataining Roy Halfpenny.
Posted by Andy Maines on Tue 28 Jul 2009 18:24:53 EDT
