No.2 Commando 6 troop (circa Feb'41 - Mar'42)
No.2 Commando 6 troop prior to Operation Chariot. Photo courtesy of Captain Michael Burn MC via James Dorrian. All details of names and other information provided to the CVA by the author James Dorrian
BOTTOM ROW 1 (l-r)1: Corporal Denis Fuller (not on raid);2. Sergeant Stanley Rodd - ML192, PoW;3. Corporal Jim Prescott - ML156, home;4. Lance Sergeant Peter Harkness - ML268, KIA;5. Lance Sergeant Bill Gibson - ML268, KIA;6 - Sergeant Major Hammond (not on raid);7 - Captain Michael Clive Burn - ML192, PoW (MC) ;8 - Lieutenant Thomas Grenville Pitt Peyton - ML192, KIA;9 - Sergeant Palmer (not on raid);10 - Lance Sergeant Maurice 'Boy' Harrison - ML192, KIA;11 - Sergeant Booker (not on raid);12 - Corporal Nelson Smallbone (not on raid - kia Italy);13 - Corporal Norman Lucas Fisher - ML192, KIA;14 - Fusilier Frederick Arthur Penfold - ML192, PoW;
ROW 2(l-r):1- Unknown;2 - Rifleman Paddy Bushe - ML177, PoW;3 - Fusilier William Bell - ML192, PoW;4 - Fusilier Robert Salonicka Woodman - ML192, KIA;5 - Unknown;6 - Lance Corporal Arthur Young - ML192, PoW (MiD);7 - Lance Corporal Ronald Edward David Burns - ML268, KIA;8 - Unknown;9 - Fusilier Leonard George William Goss - ML192, KIA;10 - Unknown;11 - Unknown - not on raid;12 - Rifleman Bingham (not on raid);13 - Guardsman Charles 'Taff' Lloyd - ML156, home;14 - unknown;
ROW 3 (l-r):1- Private Carter (not on raid);2- Private Bert Dixon (not on raid); 3 - Rifleman Thomas Ypres Roach, ML177, KIA;4 - Unknown;5 - Lance Corporal John Dawson - ML156, home;6 - Lance Corporal William Watt - ML156, home (kia Salerno);7 - Fusilier John Cudby - ML177, PoW;8 - Corporal Reginald Maurice Tomsett - ML192, KIA;9 - Unknown;10 - Unknown;11- Unknown;
TOP ROW 4 (l-r):1- Fusilier Albert James Lucy - ML192, KIA;2 - Corporal William Albert Spaul - ML192, KIA;3 - Private Makeham (not on raid);4 - Unknown;5 - Rifleman Roe (not on raid);6 - Fusilier Eddie Tucker - ML156, home;7 - Unknown;
8 - Unknown;9 - Rifleman Peter Westlake - ML192, PoW;10 - Unknown;11 - Unknown;12 - Unknown;13 - Unknown;14 - Rifleman Salmon (not on raid).
Update from Pete R. "Row 4 No.3 is shown as Pte Makeham. I believe this is Pte Reg Makeham who was part of Operation Musketoon and who was executed after capture. More details can be seen in the No.2 Commando "In Remembrance album".
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Recent comments
Reply to Jean Sutcliffe
Jean if you have a better photo of your Uncle, Fusilier Robert Salonicka Woodman, get in touch via the Contact us section on the Homepage www.commandoveterans.org
Posted by Pete Rogers (Admin) on Mon 18 Nov 2019 14:47:36 EST
My Uncle Fusilier Robert Salonicka Woodman row 2 (4) Killed at St Nazaire. My Dad and Uncle spoke of him so many times that I feel I knew him although never met him. So proud of him, and indeed all of these men.
Posted by Jean Sutcliffe on Mon 11 Nov 2019 06:56:44 EST
Row 3 No.2 - Pte Bert Dixon
My grandad who didn't go on the raid.
Posted by Tim Huelin on Fri 23 Sep 2011 10:56:53 EDT