Date: 16/04/2009
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Owner: Pete Rogers (Admin)
Memorial to the Commandos, Luc sur Mer (1)
Captain Tom Gordon Hemming was originally a Lieutenant in No.1 Commando. Lt Hemming was an officer on the raid codenamed Operation Chopper on the 28th Sep 1941. Two Commandos were killed on this raid and are buried in a local Catholic church. Later he was promoted Captain attached to No.2 Commando. When he died in the early 1990's his ashes were, in accordance with his wishes, buried next to the graves of his two lost men, whom he never forgot (info from Andy Maines)