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Capt. David Style, who had been awarded the MC at Dieppe, was badly wounded in Normandy accepting a purported surrender by a group of Germans.
Lt Oscar Wilson also survived the war and became a London antiques dealer.
Lt David Haig-Thomas, a noted pre-war naturalist and explorer, was killed in the early hours of D-Day having parachuted in with the airborne forces as a liaison officer.
CSM Peter King went on to be commissioned in the field in Normandy, and was awarded the MC in Holland.
Cpl Paddy Byrne, one of C Troop's snipers, appears in an iconic photo being stretchered on an old door. In fact he had been shot in the buttock as a result of "friendly" fire.
Cpl Bill Finney had been awarded the MM at Dieppe.
Pte Owen Hooper was later to be killed in the fighting in Flushing, as a result of a booby-trapped door. (My uncle, Sgt Donald Martin, was crouched next to him at the time.)
Pte Bill Johnson was also a sniper, survived the war and became a Hull trawlerman.
L/Cpl Duncan McCubbin was one of a number of the police intake in C Troop, survived the war and ultimately became a
chief superintendent with Liverpool Police.
Tpr Marron, another former policeman, earned the nickname "Mirror" in house-to-house fighting in Flushing when he discharged a whole magazine from his TSG into a wardrobe mirror, having caught site of his reflection in it.
Pte Robert Ong, who was Capt Style's runner, was killed on leaving his landing craft on D-Day.
Gdsm Joe Powell survived the war and went on to work in the film industry. Ironically, he arranged many of the explosions in the film "the Longest Day".
Pte Sievewright was killed trying to recover Capt Style.

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