Achnacarry Commando Officers and Instructors

Commando Officers and Instructors at Achnacarry 1944 - Photo credit T.H. Everitt.

Surnames added to enable result in gallery search facility: allen, symondson, kaye, joye, komrower, vaughan, cotton minchin, carlos, benwell, dunning, sharples, balchin, myers, parkinson cumine, keen, blandford, ferguson, blanch, paine, ellis, nash, wilkie, milne, keigwin, crowther, colman, tunstall, drayton, udy

In 1945 Lieutenant Milne was attached to No 3 Commando and blinded during operations in Germany. Post war he became a Professor.

In 1945 Captain Douglas Cotton Minchin, pictured here, was attached to 43 RM Commando. A few weeks later on the 15th March 1945 he was killed in action on operations prior to Operation Roast at Lake Commachio.

In Memory of Captain Douglas James Maurice Cotton Minchin
77634, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)and No. 43 R.M. Commando., Royal Marines
who died age 26 on 15 March 1945
Remembered with honour at CASSINO MEMORIAL

Also pictured here is Lt.Ralph Parkinson-Cumine. He became a Troop Commander of 43 RM Commando, was wounded at Argenta, and later, whilst a Captain with 41 Ind. RM Cdo. was killed in action in Korea. His body was never found and he was pronounced "Missing presumed killed".

In Memory of Captain Ralph Nicholas Parkinson-Cumine, MC
41 Independent Commando RM.
Missing in action presumed killed 29th November 1950 Korea.
Remembered with honour at a Memorial at St. Annes Church, Killough, Down

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