Photo Taken in ENVERMEU. All prisoners from DIEPPE raid were there.
This photo about N°3 Cdo men was taken front the First War mémorial in ENVERMEU.
Ext. Right with Beret ( R.A.C ) is Ronald GITTENS
3 Cdo 2 Troop
Posted by stephane on Fri 08 Sep 2017 05:01:27 EDT
Dutch ferries
HMS Queen Emma was originally Koningin Emma one of two Dutch ships to escape to England at the start of World War Two.
Her sistership was HMS Prinses Beatrix. Although often named as HMS Princess Beatrix she was commissioned as HMS Prinses Beatrix.
HMS Prinses Beatrix had her Radar just behind Bridge
HMS Queen Emma's Radar was mounted on the Mast
Posted by Rick Smallman on Tue 14 Feb 2017 10:34:35 EST
Alick Cowieson
Alick Cowieson and Roy Murray, Fox Coy 1st Ranger Bn
Achnacarry July 1942
Posted by christina on Tue 27 Dec 2016 14:31:32 EST
Photo updated
Thanks Jan
Posted by Pete Rogers (Admin) on Thu 08 Dec 2016 10:56:44 EST
This is IWM photo H.32673 with the caption "Lt.Gen.HUNTON chatting to, and inspecting, Commandos who have just returned from a 7-mile speed march, completed in 60 minutes"
It is part of a series taken on 8th september 1943 by Lieut. Lockeyear.The series is called :"Lt.Gen. T.L.HUNTON OBE.,INSPECTS ROYAL MARINES COMMANDO PASSING OUT PARADE - 43RD ROYAL MARINES, COMMANDO DEPOT, ACHNACARRY, SPEANBRIDGE".
Another photo of the series (IWM H 32667) is in the gallery (CBTC) and shows Gen. Hunton with Lt.Col. Vaughan
Posted by Pete Rogers (Admin) on Mon 09 May 2016 17:20:44 EDT
My uncle, Lt. Richard Peters is in the second row up, second from right. He was killed in Burma on the night of 8/9 February 1945, leading an operation which played an important part in establishing a bridgehead at Pagan. My Mum recalls that Richard was leading a reconnaissance patrol of 3 men and the others all got away after he was shot. They went back 10 days later & recovered his body & buried it. Later it was removed and reburied in the military cemetery. She recalls the village was near Pakoku
Posted by Robert Barton on Mon 09 May 2016 16:16:50 EDT
Photo updated
Thanks Philip...my uncle also lived in Bebington and is in the photo.
Posted by Pete Rogers (Admin) on Thu 28 Apr 2016 18:32:08 EDT
I can identify the lance corporal crouching bottom left in Pete Rogers' photo of the 4th Independent Company as my grandfather, John Mason, from Bebbington, Cheshire. He was near Private Robert George Martin when he died on board HMS Vindictive, and he told me the account of Private Martin's death when I was a young boy. John Mason was in the Liverpool Scottish when he volunteered for Norway. Before the war he had been in the King's Hussars, and after Operation Scissorforce he went on to serve with the Seaforth Highlanders at El Alamein and in Italy.
Posted by Philip Voice on Wed 27 Apr 2016 14:39:41 EDT
email contact made
Now in contact with contributor
Posted by Pete Rogers (Admin) on Sun 17 Jan 2016 15:29:11 EST