Capt. Graeme Delamere Black and Lieutenant Howell Gaston Lloyd 'Hoppy' Hopwood, 1941
[Photo from the collection of Major William Oranmore 'Bill' Copland DSO, of No.2 Cdo., courtesy of his son Peter Copland.]
Lieut. H.'Hoppy' Hopwood was in 5 troop of No.2 Cdo. He led the protection squad for Stuart Chant's demolition team at St Nazaire. He was taken POW and led the burial party at the funeral for the dead of both sides which took place at Escoublac on Wednesday 1st April 1942.
Captain Graeme Black, on the left, was one of the seven men of No. 2 Commando who were captured after Operation Musketoon, and later executed under Hitler's Commando Execution Order, at Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp, Berlin, 1942. See No.2 Commando albums 'In Remembrance' and 'Operation Musketoon'.
In Memory of 106240 Captain Graeme Delamere Black DSO, MC
South Lancashire Regiment and No. 2, Commando
who died age 31 on 23 October 1942
Remembered with honour BROOKWOOD MEMORIAL.
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