A few of No.2 Commando who made it back after Operation Chariot
Photo courtesy of Tim Huelin, grandson of Bert Dixon No.2 Cdo. Posted by Pete R.
Survivors from MLs 156 and 446, Seaton Barracks, Plymouth, 29th March 1942.
Assuming 3 rows all left to right:
Front row (5 men all lying down): 1. Cpl. A. Smith (1 tp); 2. Pte. Len Scully (1tp); 3. Fus. Eddie Tucker (6tp); 4. L/Sgt. Roy Bellringer (1tp); 5. L/Cpl. Ivor Bishop (1tp)
Middle row (7 men): 1. L/Sgt. Alex McClair (2tp); 2. L/Cpl. William Watt (6tp - kia 6th Aug 1943); 3. Pte Tom Everett (RAMC 2 Cdo; 4. Capt. Mike Barling (RAMC 2 Cdo); 5(in duffle coat). Pte Jim Newell (1tp); 6(in duffle coat). L/Cpl. Stanley Stevenson (2tp); 7. n/k.
Rear row (8 men):1. n/k; 2. Cpl. Reg. Fursse(6tp); 3. L/Cpl. Jack Webb (RAMC 2tp 2 Cdo); 4. L/Cpl. John Dawson (6tp); 5. L/Cpl. George Ewens (3tp); Cpl. Jim Prescott (6tp); 7. L/Cpl. Dominic Cobelli (1tp); 8. Gdsm. H.C. 'Taff' Lloyd (6tp).
+ 2 men looking out of the window: n/k
(There is a slightly different and smaller version of this photo with one man, shown here middle row no.7, who is missing in Jim Dorrian's book Storming St Nazaire.
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