Row 3 (i.e. third from top), second from left (smiling) is my Dad Martin 'Monty' Murtagh (RA)
Posted by Paul Murtagh on Tue 31 Dec 2019 14:30:48 GMT
Photo updated
Names from comments added.
Posted by Pete Rogers (Admin) on Fri 06 Sep 2019 19:14:05 BST
Photo updated
Sources:
1. Forum message [Here]
2. Obituaries Cdo.Assoc. newsletter 56 issued March 1973 "Cpl. James Robert Speight (6 Cdo) of Leeds."
Posted by Pete Rogers (Admin) on Thu 20 Jun 2019 20:01:06 BST
on the left/Top James Robert Speight
Posted by Robert Speight on Thu 20 Jun 2019 18:39:31 BST
3rd row (7 men):1. James Robert Speight ( My Dad )
Posted by Robert Speight on Thu 20 Jun 2019 17:27:47 BST
3rd row from bottom 13th from the right is my Grandad George Arthur Griffies
Posted by shaun griffies on Fri 07 Jun 2019 19:52:10 BST
Photo updated
Arthur Harry Pargeter identified by his granddaughter Joanne McLeod
Posted by Pete Rogers (Admin) on Fri 22 Mar 2019 13:32:15 GMT
Thank you so much for the names for this photo - we've had this photo for years but my grandad couldn't remember where he was. He's Pte Peter Pocock, front row, 4th from left.
Thank you!
Posted by Katie Longhurst on Wed 31 Jan 2018 14:58:51 GMT
Seated on chairs (from the left):
N°2: Sgt.J.V.BYRNE (Ex Gordon Hgl./ex SAS) Author of "The General salutes a Soldier (1986);
N°22: Capt. R.HARDEY
Posted by Jan Mas on Mon 07 Aug 2017 14:23:45 BST
Another ID
4th row from the front, 19th from the right is Fred 'Nobby' Clarke, my father
Posted by Louise on Fri 04 Aug 2017 13:44:58 BST
Identified
Top row of 3 on right, 3rd in from right is my father, Fred 'Nobby' Clarke
Posted by Louise on Fri 04 Aug 2017 13:31:14 BST
Another name
Top row, 3rd from left, arms crossed, my father, Fred 'Nobby' Clarke
Posted by Louise on Fri 04 Aug 2017 13:27:44 BST
My dad Bob Moran is in the centre of the photo pointing his finger.Sadly passed away in 2004
Posted by paul moran on Sat 22 Jul 2017 20:29:53 BST
No6 Commando Officers--6th Officer in from the left
Hello all, the officer in the above photo, 6 in from the left is my Uncle Cpt Ronnie GK Hardey MC.
I am amazed to see this photograph, thank you all so much. I have never seen it before and it adds to my understanding of No6...Thank you
Posted by Simon Hardey on Sat 15 Jul 2017 22:00:52 BST
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
Sorry, that should have been Capt. Marshall John Adam Leaphard.
Regards
Peter Bowe
Posted by Peter John Fitzgerald Bowe on Sat 24 Oct 2015 19:46:24 BST
In addition (4) may be Capt. Marsha;; John Adam Leaphard.
Regards
Peter Bowe
Posted by Peter John Fitzgerald Bowe on Sat 24 Oct 2015 19:45:18 BST
I believe (1) is Captain John Francis Clapton and (3) is Lt. Peter R. Cruden
Regards
Peter Bowe
Posted by Peter John Fitzgerald Bowe on Sat 24 Oct 2015 19:42:14 BST
Hi Nick
Thanks for Fixing up the picture. When I scanned the photo I wasn't aware that it had been Flipped or Mirrored.
That must have happened later on when I cropped the picture.
My dad would remember Jim Petrie. My dad is turning 92 this year and lives in Adelaide, South Australia.
I will email him and let him know about Jim.
Blessings
Peter H
Posted by Peter harding on Tue 14 Apr 2015 09:48:17 BST
Pte Roy "Zook"Harding Suzuki
My Father can be seen on the Top Row, Fifth from the Right of Picture. I think the picture was taken 2 June 1943 in Hove.
Posted by Peter harding on Tue 14 Apr 2015 09:38:26 BST
Photo updated
Additional name added.
Posted by Pete Rogers (Admin) on Mon 13 Apr 2015 22:44:39 BST
Photo updated
Additional names added
Posted by Pete Rogers (Admin) on Mon 13 Apr 2015 22:43:44 BST
Photo updated and mirrored
As per Nick's comments this photo has been corrected
Posted by Pete Rogers (Admin) on Mon 13 Apr 2015 21:55:55 BST
Roy Suzuki & Jim Petrie
Hi Peter,
A great collection of photos of your father.
On Sunday 12 April 2015, I attended the CVA's Annual Parade & Service held at the Royal Hospital Chelsea and I had a good chat with No.6 Commando Veteran, Jim Petrie. By some strange coincidence, Jim was telling me about his best mate - Roy 'Zoot' Suzuki...
Jim told me that he & Roy were on the PIAT Gun team together.
May I point out that this particular photo has been uploaded back to front - the cap badge is always worn over the left eye and the excess cloth is pulled down over the right ear.
Rgds,
Nick
Posted by Nick Collins on Mon 13 Apr 2015 21:34:46 BST
This is a Photo of my Father taken in 2009 when he went to Normandy for the 65th Anniversary of D-Day.
Prt. Roy "Zook" Suzuki, formerly of the Royal West Kent Regiment and No.5 Commando, then of No.6 Troop of No.6 Commando - he is of English/Japanese parentage and one of four brothers (Henry, David, George & John). He had joined the army below the minimum age at Brasted, Kent on 27th June 1940 after his brother George (Green Howards) had safely returned from the confusion of Dunkirk. Meanwhile his brother David was serving with the Pioneer Corps and John served as a 'Bevin Boy' in the coal mines of England.
Upon the eve of No.5 Commando being shipped out to Madagascar in 1942 Roy Suzuki had been hospitalized. Eventually, realizing that his Commando Unit would be shipping out without him he had discharged himself from hospital and attempted to reach the Commandos aboard ship in Glasgow harbour by swimming in the River Clyde. He was spotted by the police, arrested and spent the...
This is a Photo of my Father taken in 2009 when he went to Normandy for the 65th Anniversary of D-Day.
Prt. Roy "Zook" Suzuki, formerly of the Royal West Kent Regiment and No.5 Commando, then of No.6 Troop of No.6 Commando - he is of English/Japanese parentage and one of four brothers (Henry, David, George & John). He had joined the army below the minimum age at Brasted, Kent on 27th June 1940 after his brother George (Green Howards) had safely returned from the confusion of Dunkirk. Meanwhile his brother David was serving with the Pioneer Corps and John served as a 'Bevin Boy' in the coal mines of England.
Upon the eve of No.5 Commando being shipped out to Madagascar in 1942 Roy Suzuki had been hospitalized. Eventually, realizing that his Commando Unit would be shipping out without him he had discharged himself from hospital and attempted to reach the Commandos aboard ship in Glasgow harbour by swimming in the River Clyde. He was spotted by the police, arrested and spent the next few days in jail before being identified as a serving Army Commando and returned to Achnacarry. There spending much of his time retraining with the American Rangers in advance of the Operation Torch, North African landings, before joining No.6 Troop of No.6 (Army) Commando.
Medals1939-45 Star. Africa Star, France and Germany Star, Defence Medal, WarMedal 1939-45.
My father served in the British Army from 1939 until well after WW2. He was with No 6 Commado in N Africa and at the Normandy D-Day landings.He eventally reached the rank of Sergeant in the British Army’s Education Corps.
After the war, and changing his name to Roy Harding, he travelled the World, working in the Belgian Congo and South Africa before returning to the UK and studying law before being called to the Bar at Grays Inn, London , and practising in Chambers at Middle Temple . In 1971, Roy emigrated to Australia.
Peter Allen Harding
Brisbane, Australia
Posted by Peter harding on Mon 13 Apr 2015 07:17:17 BST
