Hi Pete . hope this gets to you cant find a proper link to answer your questions .
i was a eight years old when the war started & albert was 15 years older than me.Albert died about 15 years . most of this information has come from my brother George who is ninty & knew him quite well being in the HLI himself.
I remember him coming home from one of these early raids though & my father who served in the first world war takin him into the bathroom & cleaning him up. i was hiding on the stairs so i saw quite a bit of what was going on.
We lived in custom house right next to the docks so he must have been dropped of.
I remember him giving me a silver table bell that he had brought back as a souvenir .
I think he was on boulonge or Guernsey raids . he was never one to talk about it a lot.
Hope this helps ..i will add as i get more info.
Regards Ron
Posted by ron copus on Sat 16 Jan 2016 14:56:57 EST
My eldest brother albert copus ,,seaforths, joined the army in 1939, volonteerd for the early commandos.
Posted by ron copus on Tue 12 Jan 2016 12:49:32 EST
names update
W1: Therion seen elsewhere as Therien; Vilnaff seen elsewhere as Vilneff.
W2: Offags seen elsewhere as Offless.
W3: add A. Germaine (A/AB - V38689); additionally variation on spelling of the following - Morel seen elsewhere as Horel; Celev seen elsewhere as Caler; Hardine seen elsewhere as Harding.
Posted by Pete Rogers (Admin) on Tue 24 Nov 2015 06:15:20 EST
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Details and link added
Posted by Pete Rogers (Admin) on Tue 22 Sep 2015 14:07:23 EDT
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Rfn Frank Goode identified
Posted by Pete Rogers (Admin) on Wed 24 Jun 2015 07:11:16 EDT
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The man shown as Rfn. Frank Goode was originally named in error as Pte. Frank Gooch. 7016236 Rfn Frank Goode, 3 troop and taken POW at St Nazaire, identified by famnily and friends and confirmed by other sources (POW records/CVA notes for 2 cdo DR)
Posted by Pete Rogers (Admin) on Thu 11 Jun 2015 08:59:26 EDT
firing a mortar
the commando firing the mortar is my father Laurence Murphy 5338001 of number 2 commandos. he is 98 next month and still living on his own. When we visited Vaagso, my father remembered exactly where he fired the mortar from. The Norwegian people invited us into their homes showing us, with great pride, the bullet holes in their walls from the attack. They were and still are grateful for this raid which is taught to every Norwegian soldier as the best example of a co-ordinated attack by the three services.
Posted by john murphy on Thu 14 May 2015 09:02:09 EDT
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Posted by Pete Rogers (Admin) on Tue 06 Jan 2015 10:56:57 EST
Bush warfare school Burma
My dad Thomas Waters, nick named Darkie was with Mike Calvert He went into China in Jan 1942 and was flown out by the Z
Americans in October 1942here and went into China. Any one with information that would help me
Posted by Sylvia Atkinson on Wed 26 Mar 2014 11:40:20 EDT
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Albert O'Hare identified by his niece Christina Orr
Posted by Pete Rogers (Admin) on Thu 23 Jan 2014 12:32:20 EST