No.2 Commando reunion circa 1972 - numbered with names
[Photo credit Stephen McAllister, son of CSM Ken McAllister No.2 Commando].
1. Tan Rudge DCM; 2. nk; 3. Reg Fursse; 4-5. nk; 6. Walter Ainslie; 7. Edward 'Tiny' Burke; 8-9. nk; 10. Charlie Simpson; 11. Ossie 'Dusty' Miller; 12-15. nk; 16. Charles Priest; 17. Joe Rogers MM; 18. Jack Barlow MBE BEM; 19-23. nk; 24. Maj. Laurence MacCallum MC; 25. nk; 26. Stanley Buckmaster; 27. Pte. Zvi Swet; 28. Ken Cook; 29. Harry P Richman; 30. n/k; 31. Tommy Parsons; 32. nk; 33. Doug Twiddy; 34. Ben Fryer; 35-38. nk; 39. Manuel 'Peter' Basire; 40. TSM Ken McAllister; 41. Ricky Launden; 42.n/k; 43. Lt. Col. Jack Churchill DSO MC; 44-47. nk.
Update 26/12/11 (PR) from Eric Buckmaster identifying Harry P. Richman in the photo. Eric adds, " Like several other members of HQ Troop, after we returned to Italy from Yugoslavia, he came back to the UK for OCTU Training. He was Commissioned and served till the end of the War in the Essex Regt. He had one son who lived overseas. He is buried in a Jewish Cemetery near the Robin Hood Hotel in Epping Forest. Stan Scott, Harry Winch, and I attended the Synagogue Service when his memorial was consecrated."
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Charlie Simpson
Number 10 is my grandfather Charlie Simpson.
Posted by Scott Thew on Mon 30 Nov 2015 02:03:10 EST