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Rank: Private
Unit / Base: 7 Commando, Layforce.
Regiment/Corps: Suffolk Regiment, 5th Bn.
Army number:5830905.
POW Crete: 2 June 1941.
POW number: 95668
POW camps: Stalag IV-A (4A), Hohnstein, Germany, and Stalag IV-B (4B), Mühlberg, Germany

Frederick Edward Freeman
b. 17.04.1919
d: 1998.
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Read more about each Commando in our archive A-Z entries below:

https://www.commandoveterans.org/Bob_Lowson_SAS

https://www.commandoveterans.org/WalterCottam_7Commando

https://www.commandoveterans.org/John_Jamieson_7Commando
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His daughter Angela Horrigan adds "The photograph is of dad and was taken in October 1986, on the last Regimental Sunday parade he took part in, carrying the Commando Standard as he did then and on Remembrance Sunday each year."

Read more in the main archive.

Cyril Snelson
b. 08.12.1920 Warrington.
d. 30.11.1986 Warrington.
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815569 Private Alfred Holbrook was attested into the Royal Artillery in 1930 (image taken whilst in the RA) before transferring to the Royal Army Medical Corps on 29 September 1934. On 2 June 1941 he was serving in the R.A.M.C. attached to No.7 Commando and was reported missing during operations at Crete, later found to be a prisoner of war at Stalag 4B.

His son Mark adds "He was part of the BEF and was evacuated off the beach at Dunkirk. He was then captured at Crete and spent the rest of the war as a labourer for German road and railway building. He was liberated by the Russians. He and others hid in the nearby coal mine after the Germans had fled the advance, deserting the camp."

Alfred Holbrook
b. 15.08.1911
d. 23.03.1993.
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[Photo courtesy of his son Jeff Cottam.]

Service no. 3769228
1st Bn., Liverpool Scottish.
10 October 1940 attached No.7 Commando
31 January 1941 departed for the Middle East - 'A' Battalion, Layforce.
28 May 1941 wounded during the rearguard action for the evacuation of allied forces on Crete.

Walter William Cotton
b. 03.11.1915 Birkenhead , Cheshire.
d. 30.01.1989 Windsor, Ontario, Cheshire.
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Photo courtesy of Reg Seekings (son of Robert William and nephew of Albert Reginald).

All served in the Cambridgeshire Regiment, No. 7 Commando, Layforce, and the S.A.S.
Eric Musk and Robert William Seekings were both wounded at Crete but escaped.
Albert Reginald Seekings joined 'L' Detachment SAS and was awarded the DCM and MM whilst serving in the SAS.
See Archive entries for more detail
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See full entry in our Archive
https://www.commandoveterans.org/Robert_William_Seekings
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See full entry in our Archive
https://www.commandoveterans.org/Albert_Reginald_Seekings
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Photo courtesy of Jean Baptiste Brekelmans
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Photo courtesy of Jean Baptiste Brekelmans who adds "Douglas was a bycicle legend he went by bike to SAS renunions in London from his home in North Wales to London until his seventies and still sleeping in the rough. He wanted to revive his escape experiences during ww2. Douglas served in 7 Commando in GB and Crete, 1940-1941; served with Special Air Service in North Africa, 1941; POW in Italy, 1941-1943; escaped and joined Italians Partisans in Italy, 9/1943-9/1944; served with Special Air Service in North West Europe, 1945."
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