No 4 is Lt.R.W.Pantall MM, 3Cdo and CBTC
See also "CBTC Officers'Mess 1945"
He is also to be seen in the 1945 IWM film "Story of the Green Beret", leading the attack from LCA's on Loch Lochy.
Posted by Jan Mas on Tue 21 Nov 2023 12:04:10 EST
Comment from Richard Straw
Richard Straw identifies his grandfather as standing at the end of the middle row on the right - PLY/X2187 Sergeant (ATy) Maurice Kenneth Straw.
Posted by Pete Rogers (Admin) on Mon 06 Nov 2023 05:33:44 EST
Standing, 4th from left, directly behind the newspaper is PLY/X2187 Sergeant (ATy) Maurice Kenneth STRAW.
Posted by Richard Straw on Tue 24 Oct 2023 09:08:14 EDT
Ernest Arthur Paget
7th from left 2nd row (tallest one in the middle) is my father Ernest Arthur Paget. He was in No. 4 commando and took part in the Dieppe raid. His service book shows him as being in HOC from December 1943 to January 1945
Posted by Philip Hugh Paget on Mon 09 Oct 2023 05:23:43 EDT
Pillion
The pillion rider is Alistair Kirkman.
Posted by Dr Ian Frayling on Wed 06 Sep 2023 04:35:25 EDT
A[listair] Kirkman
Alistair Kirkman's wife was my late father's secretary at Perkins Diesel in Peterborough. Alistair gave me the maps he used in Normandy in 1975, and after his decease his widow gave me his green beret, badges and some photos. On 20th July he is noted as having been evacuated due to a severe skin rash. Both he and his widow related to me that he had been badly burned due to a mortar attack exploding the petrol tank in the jeep he was driving. He certainly had burns and after I qualified in medicine, by coincidence, I happened to live near the Manchester Skin Hospital where he had been treated.
Posted by Dr Ian Frayling on Wed 06 Sep 2023 02:59:33 EDT
Alistair Kirkman
A[listair] Kirkman is 2nd row, 3rd from L. He gave me the maps he used in Normandy, and his late wife gave me his green beret, badges and some photos after his decease.
Posted by Dr Ian Frayling on Wed 06 Sep 2023 02:48:33 EDT
Alistair Kirkman
Dvr A[listair] Kirkman is Top row, 2nd from the R. His late wife, Stella, was my late father's secretary at Perkins Diesel in Peterborough. He gave me the maps that he used in Normandy, and after his decease she gave me his green beret, badges and some photos.
Posted by Dr Ian Frayling on Wed 06 Sep 2023 02:45:04 EDT
210 James Underwood
My brother Jimmy had an original photo of all these brave men who fought in WWII but it was in very poor condition. I am his son Stephen and my wife managed to find this original photo. My father would have been 26 years old at the time this picture was taken. He had 4 daughters and 2 sons.
Posted by Tanya Juttla-Underwood on Sat 19 Aug 2023 02:55:47 EDT
This photo is similar to another one taken by Tom Italiaander in Feb-Mar 1944 at the back of what seems to be one of the Dutch Troop HQs in Eastbourne.
Posted by Duncan Cramer on Sat 12 Aug 2023 05:13:38 EDT
Although not critical, this seems to be the most appropriate place to discuss the labelling of German fortifications on Walcheren which numbered at least (W)289 (Cruq, p. 120) which was for for Westkapelle.Elsewhere in the Gallery on Hans Cramer it is stated that W stands for "Whisky". Whisky is the NATO alphabet code for W which may have been the code used by the RAF to refer to these fortifications. However, it does not explain why W was used. It seems likely, as Houterman and Sakker, have suggested that it stands for Walcheren (p. 237, 501).
Posted by Duncan Cramer on Thu 10 Aug 2023 11:29:29 EDT
Lord Lovat's book "March Past" is freely availble to read o Internet Archive.
Posted by Duncan Cramer on Thu 10 Aug 2023 05:30:04 EDT
Brought up in Eastbourne. Died in Holland in 1945.
Posted by Duncan Cramer on Thu 10 Aug 2023 02:54:17 EDT
Part of a larger photo of Adrianus Hagelaars with Herman de Leeuw taken by Tom Italiaander in August 1944 outside the Dutch Troop HQ in Eastbourne.
Posted by Duncan Cramer on Thu 10 Aug 2023 02:46:33 EDT
