Capt Gordon Webb MC & bar identified -318 - by his son Colin Webb
Posted by Pete Rogers (Admin) on Sun 18 Aug 2013 11:45:14 BST
Photo updated with timeline of ID
Update 17/10/10 by Pete R. Stephane identifies nos. 182, 255,262,304,340,378,383; Update 28/10/10 by Pete R. Stephane identifies 316 as Robert Dawson ; Update 7/12/10 by Pete R. Steve Grace advises "132 was my late father Gerald Vincent Grace (Jerry), Bren gunner and makeshift cook under Lord Lovatt F-troop.Sadly my father died 5th November 1992"; Update 30/1/11 by Pete R. Helen Ong advises " 54 : This is my grandad Robert William Ong - sadly killed at Sword Beach on D-Day"; update 20/2/11 by Pete R. Chris Sanford-Pooley advises 160 is Harvey O'Hara and 234 is Fred Pooley;Update 1/5/11 by Pete R. Steven Blundell advises 43 is his father William (Billy) Blundell: Update 7/8/11 By Pete R. Stephane thinks that 228 is Duncan McCUBBIN, 230 is Jack LEWINGTON, and 130 is John Skerry;Update 25/5/12 Mary Crawford identifies 53 as Brian Mullen
Posted by Pete Rogers (Admin) on Sun 18 Aug 2013 11:42:15 BST
Photo updated
Sarah Baugh identifies her grandfather Norman David Venables
Posted by Pete Rogers (Admin) on Mon 12 Aug 2013 13:12:38 BST
Photo update from Peter Hensman
My father was in 44 Commando and we were just looking at photo's on website (he also has many of these. The ones marked Malaya were actually HK - New Territories/Chinese border crossing. Malaya 4 is a bailey bridge called Chick Bridge and guarded the border crossing. The original bridge was underneath it but had been blown up by Middlesex Regiment when they left HK in the retreat
Posted by Pete Rogers (Admin) on Mon 12 Aug 2013 10:29:48 BST
Photo update from Peter Hensman
My father was in 44 Commando and we were just looking at photo's on website (he also has many of these). The ones marked Malaya were actually HK - New Territories/Chinese border crossing. Malaya 3 this blockhouse which is still there is Tac U Ling (not correct spelling)
Posted by Pete Rogers (Admin) on Mon 12 Aug 2013 10:29:05 BST
Photo update from Jill Hensman
My father was in 44 Commando and we were just looking at photo's on website (he also has many of these).The ones marked Malaya were actually HK - New Territories/Chinese border crossing. Malaya 2 the blockhouse is in Hang Ma Ling (this is not correct spelling but will get that soon)
Posted by Pete Rogers (Admin) on Mon 12 Aug 2013 10:27:58 BST
Photo update from Jill Hensman
Jill adds, “My father was in 44 Commando and we were just looking at photo's on website (he also has many of these. The ones marked Malaya were actually HK - New Territories/Chinese border crossing. Malaya 1 is Chicks Bridge.”
Posted by Pete Rogers (Admin) on Mon 12 Aug 2013 10:26:57 BST
Photo of 4 Troop, 5 Commando.
I too have this photo and can confirm that my father Lance Corporal Ronald Ernest Hicks, Royal Engineers is in the 3rd row from the front, 2nd left. He annotated the photo "Falmouth January 1942".
Posted by Michael Stuart Hicks on Thu 08 Aug 2013 17:41:22 BST
Photo updated
This photo replaces a poorer resolution one we already had
Posted by Pete Rogers (Admin) on Mon 29 Jul 2013 17:13:09 BST
Photo updated with comment transferred from details
Photo updated 1/08/10 by Pete R. The following information comes from Andy Dalziel (jnr) " My father, Andy Dalziel, you already have as well as my godfather, Paddy (Tommy) Ludlow. Third row down and six from the left, with the little moustache, is Des Crowden, Des was a Londoner who after the war worked for Paddy Ludlow in the TV and radio rental he set up, DER. My father died in 1974, Des in the early 1990s as I recall. The photo was taken in the gardens beside the Greenbank hotel where they mustered every morning. "
Posted by Pete Rogers (Admin) on Fri 26 Jul 2013 23:02:13 BST
Photo updated
Info from John Anderson "I can confirm that my father John James Anderson is in the photo, I have a newspaper cutting of the same photo which I understand was taken in Falmouth, Dad is standing in front of his best pal John Skipper, My dad served alongside John Skipper in the Royal Berkshire's and they both volunteered for the Commando's in 1940 following Dunkirk, John lost a leg during one conflict, I am not sure if it was in Burma or Madagascar. My Dad was known as Andy and was born in Hackney East London on the 22.12.1919, he settled in South Wales in the mid 1970's he worked until he was 65 years old spending the last 10 years of his working life as a Railway Guard."
John James Anderson died on the 20th July 2013
Posted by Pete Rogers (Admin) on Fri 26 Jul 2013 22:52:21 BST
Photo updated
Details added
Posted by Pete Rogers (Admin) on Sun 21 Jul 2013 13:36:55 BST
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Harriet Scott identifies her father, Harry Manns, sometimes referred to as Henry Manns in his army papers although his name was actually Harry.
Posted by Pete Rogers (Admin) on Sun 21 Jul 2013 10:11:35 BST
Photo id query
Anne Bolton believes that the man 3rd row down and No.2 is her father John Rankin
Posted by Pete Rogers (Admin) on Thu 18 Jul 2013 20:22:06 BST
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Anne Bolton identifies her father John Rankin
Posted by Pete Rogers (Admin) on Wed 17 Jul 2013 14:15:31 BST
Jane Harfield identifies her father Ronald Henry Wensley
Posted by Pete Rogers (Admin) on Sat 06 Jul 2013 16:40:49 BST
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Jane Harfield identifies her father Ronald Henry Wensley
Posted by Pete Rogers (Admin) on Sat 06 Jul 2013 16:40:05 BST
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Jane Harfield identifies her father Ronald Henry Wensley
Posted by Pete Rogers (Admin) on Sat 06 Jul 2013 16:38:16 BST
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Jane Harfield identifies her father Ronald Henry Wensley
Posted by Pete Rogers (Admin) on Sat 06 Jul 2013 16:36:42 BST
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Name of Derreck Dighton added
Posted by Pete Rogers (Admin) on Thu 04 Jul 2013 10:30:19 BST
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Alastair McDougall identifies Harry Pye
Posted by Pete Rogers (Admin) on Mon 01 Jul 2013 15:46:52 BST
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Colin Austwick identifies his father John
Posted by Pete Rogers (Admin) on Wed 26 Jun 2013 08:53:49 BST
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Colin Austwick identifies his father John
Posted by Pete Rogers (Admin) on Wed 26 Jun 2013 08:49:23 BST
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Transferred from photo details to comments - Update 2/5/12 Martin Edwards identifies his Grandfather Cpl. William Barnes as back row 3rd from the left
Posted by Pete Rogers (Admin) on Mon 24 Jun 2013 14:17:55 BST
Firt left : Jimmy SYNNOTT 3 cdo 3 Troop
Third left : Bill BRITNELL 3 Cdo 1 Troop
Posted by stephane on Sun 23 Jun 2013 22:48:52 BST
